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Redbird Football and Tailgating

  • Date and Location

    Saturday, OCtober 18, 2025
    Tailgating
    Time: 9 a.m.
    Redbird Football
    2 p.m.
    Hancock Stadium

  • Homecoming Football Tickets

    Tickets will go on sale in the summer 2025.

    If you need special accommodations or have ticket questions, please contact the Redbird Ticket Office at (309) 438-8000.

  • Tailgate Passes 

    Tickets will go on sale in the summer 2025.

Homecoming Shuttle

Take advantage of the free Homecoming shuttles on Saturday from 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. The morning shuttle (7:30 a.m.-noon.) will run from the Alumni Center to the front of the Bone Student Center and back again. In the afternoon (Noon-6 p.m.), the shuttle will continue to stop at the Alumni Center but will travel through Uptown Normal as well.

Smoke- and Tobacco-Free Campus

Please remember that Illinois State University is a smoke- and tobacco-free campus in compliance with the State of Illinois' Smoke-Free Campus Act. This new law prohibits smoking and the use of tobacco on campus property. Campus property includes buildings, grounds, parking lots, and vehicles that are owned or operated by state-supported institutions of higher education.