Curt Cignetti’s Jaw-Dropping Raise Sparks Debate: Is Indiana Football’s Pay Finally Matching Its Ambition?
At age 62, Cignetti made the leap from the always-competitive James Madison to Indiana, which had been one of the worst power-conference football programs in the country for a long, long time. Bringing over many JMU players and filling out the rest of his roster with many other transfers, Cignetti transformed the Hoosiers from a Big Ten laughingstock to a conference title contender in Year 1.
A season after Indiana went 3-9 and needed four overtimes to beat Akron at home for one of its two wins against FBS teams, Cignetti led Indiana to a 10-0 record to start 2024. While a road loss to eventual national champion Ohio State prevented them from going undefeated, the Hoosiers rebounded to smack around rival Purdue 66-0 to finish the regular season 11-1 and, more importantly, clinch their first-ever College Football Playoff (CFP) berth.

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