January 19, 2026, will forever belong to the Indiana Hoosiers. Curt Cignetti authored one of college football’s most remarkable turnaround tales, lifting Indiana to a national championship that rippled far beyond sports.

Indiana coach Curt Cignetti has officially confirmed he's happy to have brought the first national championship in football program history to Bloomington.

All the lessons we think one college football season teaches us often turn out to be wrong. So what comes after an Indiana championship?

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An implicit “never too high, never too low” mantra governed Cignetti’s Hoosiers, and because of that they beat Miami 27–21 Monday to become the most unlikely national champion in college football history. It’s a mindset Cignetti has cultivated for years—dating back to his days at James Madison, as fans found out from his daughter Natalie Tuesday.

Forget the greatest job in college football history, Joel Klatt is ready to consider the job Curt Cignetti has done at Indiana as one of the best in sports history.

Curt Cignetti enjoyed himself a Hoosier Gameday Lager from the Upland Brewery after Indiana won the national championship on Monday night.

Back in the late 70s/early 80s, there was a quarterback on West Virginia's football roster by the name of Curt Cignetti, the son of former WVU head coach, Frank

Not even rap stars in the wee hours of a Hoosiers celebration could deter Curt Cignetti whom, pausing that celebration, was already focused on work.

Cignetti — who began his head coaching career at Division II Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2011 — became the first head coach to win a national title in his first or second season with a team since Gene Chizik led Auburn to the championship in 2010.

Curt Cignetti is proving to be a nightmare for college football. Not for the sport, but for his peers who have long proclaimed that a national championship requires a blue-chip roster as its prerequisite.