A special season for Indiana ended on a sour note as it lost to Notre Dame 27-17 in the College Football Playoff first round to finish 11-2. Amid a hot start to the follow-up in the 2025 season, the No. 7 Hoosiers now travel to No. 3 Oregon to face the Ducks on Saturday ( 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ Premium ) and again put the notion of whether they can contend on the line.

Oregon under Phil Knight -- affectionately called Uncle Phil -- became the poster child for how to fund a football program into the national spotlight incrementally year over year. The Ducks are not a blue blood, they're a new blood, and they're the best bet to be the next first-time college football national champion. But as college football enters the revenue-sharing era, Indiana is an

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