The Hoosier Huddle staff entered the 2015 season with one goal in mind for the IU football program: make a bowl game. It wasn’t always pretty and it was often quite frustrating but the Hoosiers won all four non-conference games and then hammered Maryland and Purdue to reach six wins and play in a bowl game for the first time since 2007.

IU lost a heart-breaker in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl as they fell 44-41 in overtime to the Duke Blue Devils and finished the year at 6-7. Overall, the season can be considered a success but make no mistake, the Hoosiers left some wins on the table and there are plenty of things that must be improved upon if they are to continue to progress as a program. We’ll have a lot of season review content before we wade into the murky waters of the off-season. The first piece of that review coverage is this broad look at some of the standout games, performances, players and more from the 2015 Indiana football season.