1987 Indiana football

Football was—and is–second fiddle to basketball in the state Indiana, especially in the days before Peyton Manning came to the state and most especially for loyalists of Indiana University. But the 1987 Indiana football team was an improving program under Bill Mallory. One year earlier they had made their first bowl game since the 1967 Rose Bowl and 1987 saw them be a reliable supporting actor to the basketball program that had won a national title in March.