Indiana Is One Win Away From Potentially Being the Best Team in College Football History
I don't know what else there is to be said about the 2025 Indiana football team other than we are potentially just over a week away from there being a legitimate argument for the Hoosiers being the best squad in the history of college football.
Friday's College Football Playoff semifinal against Oregon was over 11 seconds into the game when D'Angelo Ponds picked off Dante Moore and took the ball to the house. That was honestly the least painful score the Hoosiers had all night, because at least Oregon got the ball back immediately without getting it rammed down their throat for eight or nine plays before IU put another seven points on the board. Somehow, each ass kicking this team doles out is more demoralizing than the last.
Indiana will now take on Miami for a football national championship. It still sounds so ridiculous, even as we've all watched this team for months and if you put any one of about 50 other uniforms on it, people would be asking if the Hurricanes will even be able to keep the game within three scores in their home stadium. And judging by the crowd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Friday night and Miami's sparse home crowds to begin with, Hoosiers fans may actually turn a true road game into a home crowd anyway.
The best college football team I've ever watched was 2019 LSU. That team went 15-0, had the Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback, scored 48 points per game and allowed 22 per game. Indiana is now 15-0 — and would be the only team in college football history to win 16 games — has the Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback, scores 41 points per game and allows just 10.
The ridiculous part of that comparison is LSU did that in a far less democratized college football landscape and with the fifth-most-talented roster in the country — the Tigers had 51 four- and five-stars on their roster. Indiana has the 72nd-best roster in the country with just seven four-star players and no five-stars. Everything they're doing flies in the face of the rules that have governed college football forever.
Nick Saban was the most underpaid employee in America for many years and now that distinction belongs to one of his former assistants in Curt Cignetti. I don't know that there's an eight-figure number you could throw out there that I'd say was too much money for him to be making on an annual basis. What he's done in Bloomington is the best coaching job in sports history.
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Best of luck to the Hurricanes. Y'all are gonna need it.