Don't call Indiana a Cinderella.
But the Hoosiers are the best story in sports right now, and they aren't done yet -- they obliterated Alabama in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl on Thursday to stay undefeated and keep this journey going.
This is the program that until this recent run had more losses than any other in college football history.
This is a team coached by a dude who had never been a head coach at the FBS level until coming to IU, yet who had the guts to say in his introductory press conference, "I win. Google me."
This is a team with a quarterback who had losing records in both his seasons starting at Cal, who is a true student-athlete.
This is a team that even as they marched through the campaign without a loss had plenty of doubters before playing Ohio State in the Big Ten title game.
This is a team that had the majority of ESPN personalities still pick them to lose to 9-seed Alabama in the Rose Bowl.
This is a team that, since 1992, had won 0 bowl games, going up against a team that has won 7 national championships in that timeframe.
Indiana has proven itself to be the best team in the country.
But it's journey? The slipper fits that of a Cinderella, just over the span of a few seasons.
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Curt Cignetti does indeed win.
Fernando Mendoza won the Heisman.
The Hoosiers are unlike any other team in recent college football history, a sport dominated by dynasties and blue bloods disrupted by an institution that has always been a clear and obvious basketball school.
We turn on the television to watch sports with the promise that anything can happen.
Usually in college football, though, the predictable happens.
This season, though, Indiana has upended the sport.
The Hoosiers beat the Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl. The Hoosiers are undefeated. The Hoosiers are two wins from a national championship.
There's nothing better than sports.
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