2021 — Season 2021

Record 8-4
Final Result Bowl season
AP Final — post-bowls
SP+ +5.6 last-week
Era —
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L vs Ohio St 31-45 W vs Miam (OH 31-26 W @ Colorado 30-0 L vs Bowl Gre 10-14 W @ Purdue 20-13 W vs Nebraska 30-23 W vs Maryland 34-16 W @ Northw 41-14 L vs Illinois 6-14 L @ Iowa 22-27 W @ Indiana 35-14 W vs Wiscon 23-13 W vs West Vir 18-6 CFP
What It Meant

2021 (8-4) is a middle chapter — the kind of season that doesn't write headlines but fills the ledger.