Our key takeaways from No. 17 Indiana football's win over No. 8 Illinois:

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football won’t go into Selection Sunday without a signature win this year.

The No. 17 Hoosiers (4-0) still have plenty of work to do, but they looked like a team that could go the distance in a 63-10 win over No. 8 Illinois (3-1) in front of a record sold-out crowd of 56,088 fans at Memorial Stadium on Saturday night.

Indiana decisively outclassed the Illini in every phase — Fernando Mendoza tossed five touchdowns (four in the first half), IU’s defense had a season-high seven sacks while holding the them to two rushing yards and D’Angelo Ponds had the program’s first blocked punt return for a touchdown since 2021 — for its seventh win over a top-10 opponent in program history and easily

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