Indiana had the most losses in college football history. Now it's a championship contender.

At the start of the college football season, no Division I program had more losses in its history than Indiana’s 715 defeats.

But 15 weeks later, as we enter conference championship Saturday, that number remains unchanged as the 12-0 Hoosiers — ranked No. 2 in the country — prepare to face No. 1 Ohio State in Saturday’s Big Ten title game.

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Indiana, the school and state synonymous with basketball, is now a pigskin powerhouse on the precipice of its second straight College Football Playoff.

The school’s fans are as shocked as everyone else.

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“Hell no,” Mark Cuban, the billionaire multihyphenate and 1981 graduate of Indiana’s business school, told NBC News via ema