1977 Indiana Hoosiers football team

1977 Big Ten Conference football standings
	+ – Conference co-champions; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1977 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1977 Big Ten Conference football season. They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Lee Corso, in his fifth year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 10		Wisconsin	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 14–30	34,755
September 17		LSU*	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	W 24–21
September 24		Miami (OH)*	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 20–21	28,732	^[1]
October 1		at No. 11 Nebraska*	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE	L 13–31	76,034
October 8		at Northwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	W 28–3
October 15		Michigan State	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN (rivalry)	T 13–13	36,982
October 22		at Illinois	Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	L 7–21
October 29		No. 19 Minnesota	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	W 34–22	30,399
November 5		at Iowa	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA	W 24–21	49,620
November 12	1:30 p.m.	at No. 4 Ohio State	Ohio Stadium Columbus, OH	L 7–35	87,786
November 19		Purdue	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN (Old Oaken Bucket)	W 21–10	52,914
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

1977 Indiana Hoosiers football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
T	`73`	Gerhard Ahting	Fr
QB	`14`	Tim Clifford	Fr
WR	`88`	Mike Friede	So
C	`50`	Mark Heidel	Jr
G	`64`	Mark Johnson	So

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
LB	`35`	Joe Norman	Jr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Player	Position	Round	Pick	NFL club
Charles Peal	Defensive tackle	10	273	Los Angeles Rams

^ Bill Ford (September 25, 1977). "Miami Nips Indiana In Last 13 Seconds". The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. C3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "1977 Football Schedule". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ "1977 Homecoming". Indiana Arbutus (yearboook). Archived from the original on March 24, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
^ "1978 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on 2007-12-22.

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1977 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 9 Michigan +	7	–	1	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
No. 11 Ohio State +	7	–	1	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
Michigan State	6	–	1	–	1	7	–	3	–	1
Indiana	4	–	3	–	1	5	–	5	–	1
Minnesota	4	–	4	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Purdue	3	–	5	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Iowa	3	–	5	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Wisconsin	3	–	6	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Illinois	2	–	6	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Northwestern	1	–	8	–	0	1	–	10	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll