1977 Indiana

5–⁠5–⁠1 (4–⁠3–⁠1 Big Ten), coached by Lee Corso. Share

Schedule and results

Biggest upsetBeat No. 19 Minnesota 34–⁠22Oct 29
Minnesota was ranked No. 19, above it.

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below; orange marks an upset win.

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 10	vsWisconsin	L 14–⁠30	52%
Sep 17	vsLSU	W 24–⁠21	40%
Sep 24	vsMiami (OH)	L 20–⁠21	53%
Oct 1	at11Nebraska	L 13–⁠31	18%
Oct 8	atNorthwestern	W 28–⁠3	57%
Oct 15	vsMichigan State	T 13–⁠13	53%
Oct 22	atIllinois	L 7–⁠21	41%
Oct 29	vs19Minnesota	W 34–⁠22	38%
Nov 5	atIowa	W 24–⁠21	47%
Nov 12	at4Ohio State	L 7–⁠35	12%
Nov 19	vsPurdue	W 21–⁠10	51%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Purdue 21–⁠10; unranked in the final AP poll; 4th in the Big Ten.

In program history: The 40th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 132 on file).

3 first team, 1 second team

From Wikipedia’s 1977 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Michigan	7–⁠1	10–⁠2	9
Ohio State	7–⁠1	9–⁠3	11
Michigan State	6–⁠1–⁠1	7–⁠3–⁠1
Indiana	4–⁠3–⁠1	5–⁠5–⁠1
Minnesota	4–⁠4	7–⁠5
Purdue	3–⁠5	5–⁠6
Iowa	3–⁠5	4–⁠7
Wisconsin	3–⁠6	5–⁠6
Illinois	2–⁠6	3–⁠8
Northwestern	1–⁠8	1–⁠10

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.