BLOOMINGTON — Hall of fame broadcaster Don Fischer will be in the booth at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday.

That’s his natural habitat having been in the business for more than five decades, but he will be in unfamiliar territory calling Indiana football’s first appearance in the Big Ten title game for the Indiana Hoosiers Sports Network .

Fischer had all but given up on the prospect of IU reaching this stage only for coach Curt Cignetti to upend the college football landscape.

"I honestly never thought it was going to happen,” Fischer said. “I got to the point in the last 10 years, it's never going to happen. I'm never going to go to the Rose Bowl, never get the chance to win a Big Ten championship. I just didn't think it was possible in my heart.”

Like the fanbase, he became ac

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