Indiana students, fans take over streets of Bloomington with rowdy celebrations after Hoosiers' CFP national title

Teddy Ricketson

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The Indiana Hoosiers are national champions...in football. The historic basketball powerhouse not only won its first football national championship in school history, but pulled off a rare perfect season, never losing a game. 

Bloomington, Indiana, has been behind its team all season, even in 2024 when new head coach Curt Cignetti led the Hoosiers to an appearance in the College Football Playoff. The head coach has taken the Indiana program to heights they never thought possible.

Over the two seasons that Cignetti has been the head coach, the Hoosiers have won 27 games. Indiana won 28 games from 2018 to 2023. 

The national championship is always highly celebrated by the winning school's hometown, but this time it just seemed bigger for Bloomington as students and fans alike flooded the streets and partied like a school that had been there before.

Here is more on the celebrations in Bloomington after Indiana beat Miami to win its first football national championship. 

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Indiana celebrations after CFP national championship

When a school wins a national championship, its hometown tends to turn into the biggest college house party imaginable. Students light fires, climb lightposts and steal street signs. The Hoosier faithful hit all the benchmarks in their celebration and pulled it off despite the temperature dropping close to 0 degrees overnight.

The fire department and police departments were called, but there have not been any reports of arrests being made, and they made sure the celebrations just didn't reach an unsafe level. 

A local college bar, The Upstairs Pub, shared drone footage of the massive crowd in the streets outside after the win.

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A photo from a local news station in Indianapolis posted a picture of one of the fires started in the streets. 

And another of a celebrating fan who had climbed a tree. 

The celebrations reportedly lasted nearly until dawn. 

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Stop signs in Bloomington were not safe, and neither were couches. 

Some of the scenes from Bloomington look like they came straight out of a movie. 

Kirkwood Avenue is the main street in the college town and it was flooded with students all night after the win.

Generations of Hoosiers fans turned out to celebrate. 

For some reason, when your team wins, some students' first inclination is to climb. Whether it be trees, light poles, or roofs. 

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