Indiana won at Kinnick Stadium for the first time in Cignetti's tenure, and the first time as a program since 2007.
Fernando Mendoza didn't enjoy a hallmark day, but he saved his best moment for the game's biggest: a 49-yard touchdown pass to Elijah Sarratt within the game's last 90 seconds.
Pat Coogan rallied the Hoosiers and gave them a message before the pivotal moments, and delivered the line of the night after the victory.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — At the end of the third quarter, during the confused minutes between Fernando Mendoza absorbing a hard hit into the Indiana football bench and Saturday’s officiating crew deciding the resulting scrum merited no further action, Pat Coogan gathered his team together.
His message, he told reporters afterward, was impassioned, but measured. H