Indiana football had surprising success in 2024 but won't sneak up on opponents this season. Quarterback Fernando Mendoza is a key for 2025.

From the next star defender, to big wins to the postseason, here are our bold predictions.

Even as bold predictions go, putting Indiana in the College Football Playoff this time a year ago would have seemed farfetched.

Yet that’s exactly what the Hoosiers did, outpacing even the most robust expectations for Curt Cignetti ’s first season in Bloomington. Now, with Aiden Fisher , D’Angelo Ponds , Mikail Kamara and others back in the fold, IU might just be loaded up to do it again.

Cignetti will need some new faces — primarily plucked from the portal — to settle in quickly. All eyes will be on Fernando Mendoza behind center, but the Ho

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