The 2017 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented Indiana University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana competed as a member of the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. The team was led by first-year head coach Tom Allen and finished 5âÂÂ7 overall, 2âÂÂ7 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the East Division.
The 2017 Spring Game took place in Bloomington, on April 13, at 7:00 p.m.
Following the season, the Hoosiers would fire sixth-year Offensive Coordinator Kevin Johns on January 2, 2017, and hire Tennessee Offensive Coordinator Mike DeBord two days later. On January 4, 2017, Grant Heard joined the Hoosiers' coaching staff as the wide receivers coach. He formerly coached at Ole Miss. On March 3, 2017, Mike Hart was hired to fill the vacant role of running backs' coach. Hart was a former running backs coach at Syracuse, Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan, as well as a former running back for the Indianapolis Colts.
Notable departures from the 2016 squad included:
Hoosiers who were picked in the 2017 NFL draft:
The Hoosiers signed a total of 23 recruits.
Indiana had seven returning players on offense, nine on defense and two on special teams that started games in 2016.
The Hoosiers' 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home games and 6 away games. The Hoosiers first non-conference game were away at Virginia of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), before hosting the remaining two non-conference games; against FIU from Conference USA (C-USA) and against Georgia Southern of the Sun Belt Conference (Sun Belt).
The Hoosiers played nine conference games; they hosted Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Rutgers. They traveled to Penn State, Michigan State, Maryland, Illinois, and Purdue.
Radio coverage for all games will be broadcast on IUHoosiers.com All-Access and on various radio frequencies throughout the state. The primary radio announcer is long-time broadcaster Don Fischer with Play-by-Play.