Back on the market for a head coach in the winter of 2023, Indiana must’ve looked back at its checkered football past and wondered: Why don’t we hire a coach who has never lost?

That led the Hoosiers to Curt Cignetti , and the rest has been college football history. In just under a season and a half, Cignetti has gone 16-2 and turned Indiana into an offensive powerhouse.

Before reversing a century or so of failure in Bloomington, Cignetti went 53-17 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2011-16), 14-9 at Elon (2017-18) and 52-9 at James Madison (2019-23), overseeing the Dukes’ wildly successful transition to the Bowl Subdivision.

Continuing these winning ways at Indianaf has made Cignetti perhaps the best bargain in college coaching. PATH TO PLAYOFF: Sign up for our college foot

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