If you showed up to a Hollywood meeting with a script like this, you'd be turned down. Too storybook.
The losing-est program in college football history to begin the year is now national champions. The script is real. The Indiana Hoosiers have climbed the mountaintop.
"We won the national championship at Indiana University," IU coach Curt Cignetti said postgame on ESPN with a rare smile. "It can be done."
And now, for those keeping score at home, Indiana doesn't have the most losses in college football history. Northwestern does.
That's what going 16-0 in a season will do for you.
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Cignetti was a lifelong assistant until he took the bold step to leave Nick Saban's staff to be a Division II head coach at the most foreshadowing of possible places, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Then to Elon, then to James Madison, and finally to this haven in Bloomington where he made sure to tell everyone to Google who he is, because he wins.
And oh boy, he sure wins.
The wins in the first season were remarkable enough, but when faced with the big boys, the Hoosiers didn't quite have enough.
It took only one year of adjustment for Cignetti to make sure Indiana had everything.
The Hoosiers had the dominant offensive line that they didn't have before. That group kept Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza in position to make play after play, all season long.
Really, this team had everything. The conversations about them being as good as that 2019 LSU team were legitimate. There's no time machine to know for sure, but this is one of the best college football teams ever.
Their title is just that improbable. Indiana is a basketball school, in a basketball state.
Now, though, if they make a second Hoosiers movie, it'll be about football.
There are some saying this is the second most improbable championship in sports history, behind just Leicester City winning the English Premier League.
If that's the case, it makes it the wildest title in American sports history.
And, well, how do you even write a story that good?
It's why we love sports. The things that happen out there on the field are unscripted. Sometimes they're predictable. But sometimes, they're things we never could've ever seen coming.
A couple years ago, no one could've possibly fathomed the Indiana Hoosiers as the champions of the college football world.
But that's exactly what they are. And it's better than any script could've ever written it.
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