The 2024 season's largest margin: Indiana 77, Western Illinois 3. A 74-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2024 — The Top-10 Year
Indiana finished 2024 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Kurtis RourkeQB3,042 passing yards
- Tayven JacksonQB349 passing yards
- Justice EllisonRB848 rushing yards
- Ty Son LawtonRB668 rushing yards
- Kaelon BlackRB251 rushing yards
- Elijah SarrattWR957 receiving yards
- Omar Cooper Jr.WR594 receiving yards
- Myles PriceWR466 receiving yards
- Aiden FisherLB118 tackles
- Jailin WalkerLB82 tackles
- Shawn Asbury IIDB69 tackles
- Mikail KamaraDL9 sacks
- James CarpenterDL5 sacks
- Tyrique TuckerDL2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2024.
The season's deepest loss: Indiana 15, Ohio State 38. A 23-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Indiana fell to Notre Dame 17-27 in the postseason.
"Go IU"
2024 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.