Curt Cignetti’s performance at Indiana should give even more hope to schools like Maryland.

Of course, it might also ramp up the pressure.

Cignetti takes the second-ranked Hoosiers on the road Saturday to face the Terrapins. Indiana is unbeaten. Maryland was unbeaten at the end of September but hasn’t won since.

For a while the Terps (4-3, 1-3 Big Ten) looked like they might be ahead of schedule with a freshman starting at quarterback, but now this season is following a familiar pattern under coach Mike Locksley — excellent against nonconference opponents, but struggling within the league.

Meanwhile, Indiana (8-0, 5-0) exists as proof that a team can go from a Big Ten afterthought to a national title contender pretty quickly. So in that sense, Cignetti is not doing his fellow coaches a

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