Did Indiana football move up in the rankings during the bye week?

BLOOMINGTON — The Indiana football team got to watch a series of wild finishes from the comfort of home this weekend.

The Hoosiers (6-0; 3-0 Big Ten) were on a bye as No. 3 Oregon, No. 5 Penn State, No. 7 Alabama, No. 9 Tennessee, No. 10 LSU, No. 19 Kansas State, No. 23 Illinois and No. 24 Pittsburgh all prevailed in one possession games.

They moved up two spots to No. 18 in the top 25 of the US LBM Coaches Poll as one of just 11 unbeaten teams left in the FBS. Oregon, Penn State and IU sit atop the Big Ten standings with identical records.

Indiana opens up the second half of the 2024 season at noon on Saturday against a Nebraska team also coming off a bye. The Cornhuskers (5-1; 2-1) won the last meeting between the teams, 35-21, in 2022, but they haven’t visited Bloomington since the 2016 season.

During the bye week, IU announced it will be the program’s first sell out since the 2021 season. The Hoosiers will also welcome Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff — the network’s weekly pre-game show featuring the likes of Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn and Urban Meyer — to Bloomington on Saturday.

The show broadcasts live from a different college campus each week.

Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here.