Indiana

In 1967, Indiana had a miracle football season, one in which they won an amazing number of close game.  They beat Kentucky 12-10.  Then they beat Kansas 18-15.  They beat Iowa 21-17.  They beat Michigan 27-20, Wisconsin 14-9, Michigan State 14-13, and Purdue 19-14.  At the end of the year they were 9-1, they were number 4 in the country, and they were the Big 10 champs.  They were also the subject of a great article by Dan Jenkins in Sports Illustrated.  They went to the Rose Bowl, where O.J. Simpson and USC beat them 14-3.

And that's pretty much it for the history of Indiana football.  John Pont, who coached that Indiana team, never went to another bowl game.  Indiana's last bowl win came in 1991, when they won the Copper Bowl.  Their last appearance in the year-end AP poll was in 1988, when they won the Libirty Bowl and finished number 20.  Their big rivalry game is with Purdue, where they play for the Old Oaken Buckey.  The Hoosiers trail in that series 41-74-6.  But today they have their chance to make history as they host the Big Gold Trophy and the OSU Buckeyes.  I'm a skeptic, but as the saying goes, that's why they play the games.