If you told me at the beginning of the season that Indiana football would be ranked inside the top five and heading into Columbus with Big Ten Championship implications on the line , I would have called you crazy.

No. 5 Indiana (10-0, 7-0 Big Ten, No. 5 CFP) now has one more win than its combined total over the previous three seasons and finds itself ditching the half-full stadiums that had become the norm in Octobers and Novembers of seasons past.

Following its 10-0 start, the Indiana football team was ranked No. 5 in the updated College Football Playoff Rankings, released Tuesday night.