16-0!!! HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOSIERS.
As reported at ESPN, the storybook season ended last night at the Orange Bowl with the Indiana Hoosiers won their first NCAA Football championship defeating the University of Miami 17-21 and finishing 16-0. What might have been considered the most amazing college football season ever. Coach Cignetti now had an FBS-best 27-2 record over the past two seasons after Indiana went 9-27 in its final three seasons before he was hired. This is the stuff dreams are made of, congratulations to the Hoosiers, Hoo-Hoo-Hoo Hossiers!
As No. 1 Indiana entered Hard Rock Stadium on Monday night to compete for the school’s first national title on No. 10 Miami’s home turf, the Hoosiers carried with them the confidence of their head coach, Curt Cignetti, and the baggage of the program’s heavy history as one of the worst in college football.
To understand just how improbable Indiana’s 16-0 season was, punctuated by its gritty 27-21 win against Miami in front of a crowd of 67,227, the majority clad in cream and crimson.
That includes the Hoosiers’ Heisman Trophy winner, Fernando Mendoza, who willed himself 12 yards into the end zone on fourth-and-4 with 9:18 left to give the Hoosiers a 24-14 lead.