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The Indiana Hoosiers football program represents Indiana University Bloomington in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football and in the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers have played their home games at Memorial Stadium since 1960. The team has won the Big Ten Championship twice, once in 1945 and again in 1967.
This is a list of seasons completed by the Indiana Hoosiers football program since the team's conception in 1885, even though there were no documented games until the 1887 season. The list documents season-by-season records, and conference records from 1900 to the present.
Indiana has competed in the CRC on 4 occasions since 2010. IU finished tied for 5th overall in 2015 after going 3–0 in pool play. [40] The pool play victory over Clemson was the first IU Rugby game played on national television . [41] In 2017 the Hoosiers reached the CRC semifinal before losing to 5-time champions Cal 29–14. [42]
The stadium officially opened in 1960 as part of a new athletics area at the university and replaced the original Memorial Stadium built in 1925 (a 20,000-seat stadium located on 10th Street in Indiana University's Arboretum). The current Memorial Stadium has been renovated or updated multiple times since the original construction.
Most points scored in a game by both teams: 92 (2013 – IU 56, PU 36) Fewest points scored in a game by both teams: 0 (1916 & 1925 – PU 0, IU 0) Fewest points scored in a game by one team in a win: 1 (1894) 3 (1921, 1923, 1940) Most points scored in a game by one team in a loss: 41 (2019) 35 (2012) Largest margin of victory: 68 (1892) 66 (2024)
The following season, 1973–74, Indiana once again captured a Big Ten title. In the two following seasons, 1974–75 and 1975–76, the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games, including two more Big Ten championships. The 1974–75 Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game.
In a game at Bloomington on January 31, 1981, between Indiana and Purdue, Hoosier star Isiah Thomas hit Purdue guard Roosevelt Barnes with a sucker punch. [16] When the two schools played their second game of the season at Purdue on February 7, 1981, Knight claimed a number of derisive chants were directed at him, his wife, and Indiana University.
With that in mind, here are five more games that would land on a list of Indiana football's biggest regular-season matchups (in chronological order): Nov. 24, 1945 – No. 18 Purdue at No. 4 Indiana