Once the losingest program in college football’s history, Indiana’s 2025 national title win has now got people looking for factors behind its success. One such element is, of course, the 13 players (of which 7 remain) that Curt Cignetti brought to Indiana from JMU.

When Curt Cignetti took the Indiana job a couple of years ago, staff members at another power-conference school looked at the James Madison roster to see if they should pillage Cignetti’s now-former team. An assistant coach on that staff said they decided not to pursue any of Cignetti’s players.

Indiana became the first school in almost 30 years to become a first-time winner of a college football national championship. Who will be next?

Find out when the Ohio State football plays its highly anticipated matchups against Indiana, Oregon and rival Michigan in 2026.

Indiana's national title defense will include back-to-back matchups with the schools that won the championship each of the previous two seasons. The Big Ten released its 2026 league schedule on Tuesday.

Only two years ago, Indiana winning a title was unthinkable. Then, it seemed inevitable the Hoosiers would win.

Here are some key stats behind Indiana’s victory—and one of the greatest seasons in college sports history. The state of Indiana is no stranger to underdog stories. Hoosiers and Rudy, two of the most iconic underdog sports films ever made,

The Indiana Hoosiers defeated the Miami Hurricanes, 27-21, to secure their first-ever college football national championship at Hard Rock Stadium on Monday.

With the Indiana Hoosiers newly crowned as the kings of college football, recruits locked in, and the transfer portal calmed to a slow trickle, we can start to iron out who may be college football contenders for next year.