Indiana·Big Ten

2025 — The Top-10 Year

Indiana finished 2025 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.

Record 16-0
Final result 16-win season Won the CFP title game
AP final #1 post-bowls
SP+ +18.3 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Old Dom 27-14 W vs Kenn Sta 56-9 W vs Indi Sta 73-0 W vs Illinois 63-10 W @ Iowa 20-15 W @ Oregon 30-20 W vs Mich St 38-13 W vs UCLA 56-6 W @ Maryland 55-10 W @ Penn St 27-24 W vs Wiscon 31-7 W @ Purdue 56-3 W @ Ohio St 13-10 W vs Alabama 38-3 Bowl W vs Oregon 56-22 Bowl W vs Miami 27-21 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2025.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2025 season's largest margin: Indiana 73, Indiana State 0. A 73-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The postseason

The season's last act: Indiana beat Miami 27-21 in the postseason.

"Go IU"
— Indiana fanbase voice · 2025· synthesized
What it meant

2025 is a middle chapter for Indiana — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.