Indiana football begins its season on Friday night at 8 p.m. ET at Memorial Stadium against an Illinois team coming off a 38-6 win over Wyoming in Week 0.Illinois coach Bret Bielema spoke to the media on Monday about the upcoming matchup with Indiana, injury updates and more.In Bielema's opening statement, he discu sed the unique dynamic of playing an Indiana team that has film on the Illini, but didn't play last week.For everybody Jessie Bates III Jersey else its Week 1, its our Week 2," Bielema said. "Little bit unique position going into Indiana. They got a chance to watch us on Saturday. Theyve had some turnover on the staff. The thing I appreciate about Indiana coach Tom Allen is hes done it his way and thats why hes had succe s. I know theyve got a tremendous chip on their shoulder to do some good things this year. Were going to go into a hostile environment. I dont know what the crowd is going to be at but were going to prepare for it to be loud and crowded. Well put in good diligence of a work week. We came out of Wyoming I think fairly healthy. We have two guys were still waiting on. We have guys who will get information further today from testing."Illinois' starting running back Chase Brown posted 19 carries for 151 yards and two touchdowns, as well as a receiving touchdown against Wyoming, but his backup Josh McCray suffered a knee injury in the win. Bielema provided an injury update on his team on Monday.Josh McCray, I Jordan Evans Jersey know he wont be with us this week," Bielema said. "I just dont know the long-term prognosis to where hes at.Shawn Miller has an appointment today at 5 p.m. that we should gather some more information. Those two guys, really, the only two who will be out prolonged in the fact they wont be with us this week. Everybody else got through it pretty clean. Isaiah Williams was just a cramping i sue. He was clear to play to come back in, we just didnt want to do it at that point. Really, thats it."Indiana coach Tom Allen and first-year coordinators Walt Bell and Chad Wilt have kept starting personnel and scheme quiet this offseason in hopes that Illinois enters the game not knowing exactly what to expect. Bielema recognized this on Monday, saying the Illini will need to able to adjust during the game.Scroll to ContinueIndiana is kind of another step with what Wyoming was," Bielema said. "They have had a lot of turnover on the offensive, defensive and special teams units. A lot of new players coming out of the portal world. The added element of Wyoming was we kind of knew who their coordinators were and what they were going to do, but offensively and defensively special teams is a little bit of a constant at Indiana two new coordinators. Dont know exactly what that is going to be, so a lot of Friday is going to be about the ability to be aware and adjust during the course of the game and handle the moments. We started Sunday night. We changed our Sunday routine up to kind of minimize the amount of transition time. Even though its a short week, by theory, because were playing Drew Sample Jersey on Friday, it hadnt shortened our preparation. We had a couple days of spring preparation. We had three days of fall preparation on Indiana. Were actually walking into Tuesday tomorrow at practice ahead of where we would be in a big way, by multiple days, in our preparation. Hopefully thats going to play dividends.Bielema has tried to simulate the Indiana and offense and defense during practice, but admittedly, much of it has been an educated gue s."Even last spring I would say, Hey, were doing inside versus Indiana here. This is Indianas projected defense. This is Indianas projected offense," Bielema said. "We were about 14 days out from game day and we did a two-day window of Indiana and they were very clear. We go into meetings and show them film on that. Again, no one knows what Indiana is going to do. Its an educated gue s on their coordinators and their past experiences. Just following them through social media, Coach Allen is a very high energy, motivated guy. You can hear the phrases theyve been told and the way theyre going to play. Tremendous respect. We recruit against them quite a bit. Theyre in Florida as well Clark Harris Jersey . We pop up against Indiana in recruiting battles quite a bit.On the flip side, Bielema knows just how much young players can improve from game one to game two, which could be an advantage for the Illini.Two different price tags. The first is there is no doubt in my mind I learned this as an a sistant coach working with young players most young players have the biggest gain of the entire year from game one to game two, just within a week," Bielema said. "They see things for the first time. They understand the pace of play. Gabe Jacas, I promise you, he did a really nice job but that tempo was coming at him. Well, this week its an up-tempo team. Wyoming was huddling. Now hes got to get ready for that moment. Matt (Bailey) came in and did some stuff. That first INT bounced off his hands. I promise you the next one he probably catches it. Little things along that that guys make big strides. For the value Indiana has on us, thats a question for them, obviously. Anything we put out there on film is something they can gain on. I made this point emphatically to our coches yesterday, just like were preparing a scouting report on Indiana, theyre making one on us. Any tip, any tell, any significant thing we show them on film we can use that as an advantage or disadvantage to our preparation. The difference is theyve got to make that call. Its a tremendous challenge to our coaches and one I think well be ready for.Illinois is hoping to accomplish something it failed to do in year one under Bielema: win two games in a row. After a 1-4 start to the season, the Illini went 4-3 in Vonn Bell Jersey the back half of their schedule with conference wins at Penn State, Minnesota and at home against Northwestern.Last season we followed a Week 0 win over Nebraska up with a lo s. Im not going to ignore the obvious. Last year we couldnt put two back-to-back weeks together to win games," Bielema said. "Thats been a tremendous challenge and calling for us since we got together. To play on the road in a Big Ten environment on a Friday night is everything I think you could dial up as a competitor. Im excited for that growth. I do like Week Zero games. Obviously the AD gets to make the final call but I would love to play a Week Zero game as much as we can because of also having the element of two bye weeks. I think the value of being fresh in todays world of college football I know this is only our second year but as we continue to develop our roster, until were a little bit more complete in our depth, I think the health of our roster is a little more important than Xs and Os.Related stories on Indiana football:TIGHT END PO