Unveiling the 19 Secret Stats Behind Indiana’s Stunning National Championship Surge
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Rushing touchdowns by Nowakowski.
Indiana offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan called a brilliant year of football. One especially nice touch? Lining up his tight end as a fullback in Week 2 against Kennesaw State for a 1-yard touchdown plunge, then not calling Nowakowski’s name again until he was coming out of a timeout and facing a third down at the goal line in the national championship game. Shrewd!

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Indiana’s average player age. The Hoosiers were an extremely old college football team, and that experience was good to them. Some people who point that out will do so to denigrate the team’s accomplishments. I will just point to it as an effective usage of the NCAA’s toothless eligibility restrictions, which have become more or less fake over the past half-decade. People will forget that the first win of Indiana’s season was the one in a courtroom back in August, when sixth-year safety Louis Moore won the chance to play another college season and make a few hundred thousand bucks in NIL money.

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