Curt Cignetti just produced a 16–0 champion and added a 31-game starting quarterback in Josh Hoover.
POINTCAST RANK 06
Big Ten · Title weather · Board 000
Indiana
The undefeated champion deserves deference; repeating after turnover would change the sport permanently.
THE DIFFERENCE
PointCast and ESPN FPI both rank Indiana No. 6.
- PointCast
- #6
- ESPN FPI
- #6
THE RECEIPTS
The case can survive.
Or it can die in public.
The exact continuity that made Indiana feel older than everybody else has been broken up.
Run the same calm, grown-up offense with different people in the most important chairs.
CLAIM STATUS
No games yet. No victory lap yet.
This claim opened with Board 000 on July 27, 2026. PointCast will mark it proven, alive, complicated, or dead as evidence arrives.
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