MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — From audacious upstart to unbeaten national champion, Curt Cignetti and the No. 1 Indiana Hoosiers completed their meteoric rise to the top of college football Monday night.
Fernando Mendoza and the Hoosiers took No. 10 Miami’s best shots and beat the Hurricanes on their home field 27-21 in the College Football Playoff championship game.
Indiana began this season as the losingest major program in the history of college football and ended it with the school’s first national championship, capping a remarkable two-year turnaround by Cignetti. Indiana is the first team in modern college football history to finish a season 16-0.