Miami and Indiana turned college football final into one of the toughest tickets in memory
According to Ticketdata, the lowest “get-in” price at Hard Rock Stadium, not far from the Miami campus, was $3,652 about 24 hours before kickoff.
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IU football updates: Leinart, Manning praise Mendoza in video
Through Monday, IBJ reporters will be bringing you coverage of the fanfare, festivities and the football, both from central Indiana and south Florida.
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Indiana University football fans descend on Miami
IU fans filled direct flights from Indianapolis to Miami and added crimson-and-cream accents to the city’s sleek skyscraper hotels.
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Mark Cuban sums up his IU donations as belief in cutting-edge ‘CigGPT’
High-profile Indiana University alum Mark Cuban said he appreciates Curt Cignetti’s entrepreneurial approach to college football.
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Nominations are open for Be Better Awards honoring Jim Morris
IBJ is overseeing the nomination process and selection of 10 people who demonstrate the values of Morris, a longtime business and civic leader who died in 2024. The awards are part of a larger campaign associated with the NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis.
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Whitten: Football is just one of the areas where IU is excelling
“Applications at IU Bloomington have gone up 60% since I started in 2021,” IU President Pam Whitten said. And the “biggest increase was before we were good at football.”
Curt Cignetti has brought Indiana to national championship game in just 2 years
It has been a winding road for the 64-year-old coach. But he had a pretty clear vision from the jump of what he wanted his future to look like, thanks to an early exposure to the game from a coaches’ point of view.
No. 1 Indiana looking for a storybook ending to complete real-life Hollywood script at Miami
Coach Curt Cignetti promised to change Indiana University’s football image from the moment he took the job five days after the end of the 2023 season.
Mark Montieth: Indiana coaching legends used principles similar to Cignetti’s
The Hoosiers have but one game to win to complete the greatest U-turn in the history of college football.
Homefield Apparel continues growth, sees revenue rise alongside IU football success
This weekend, the Homefield team is heading south to Miami to host three events to celebrate Indiana University’s appearance in the College Football Playoffs National Championship.
A scheme to rig college basketball games has been uncovered. Here’s what we know
The charges filed in federal court in Philadelphia include bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy.
15 former NCAA players among those charged in alleged scheme to rig basketball games
Federal prosecutors charged 20 people on Thursday in what they called a betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games.
Championship basketball weekend to include HBCU all-star games
The Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper, one of the longest-running Black publications in the United States, announced on Tuesday its partnership in presenting the HBCU All-Star Game Experience at Corteva Coliseum.
Number of Miami flights and their prices continue to climb ahead of IU championship appearance
According to online ticket tracking company Skyscanner, the price for the cheapest one-way ticket to Miami on Friday is $263, but it’s a three-stop, 42-hour journey using both Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines. The fastest is an $857 direct flight from Southwest Airlines on Friday afternoon.
Tickets for Indiana football’s title game scarce, with high demand driving high prices
The get-in price for tickets to the Jan. 19 game at Hard Rock Stadium are just over $3,200 as of early Monday afternoon—about half the cost of a nosebleed seat to last year’s Super Bowl.
Airlines add flights to Miami as ticket prices rise for title game
Resale tickets for the IU-Miami game start at about $3,800 and top out at nearly $30,000, while the CEO of Bullseye Event Group says the group’s VIP travel packages are selling fast.
Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza is going home for championship game
The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback grew up in Miami and attended Christopher Columbus High School, roughly 30 minutes south of Hard Rock Stadium.
It’s Indiana and Miami in a college-football title matchup that once seemed impossible
Against the odds, Miami and Indiana have a date in the College Football Playoff final—a first-of-its-kind matchup on Jan. 19 in the second national title game of the expanded-playoff era.
IU earns spot in title game with dominating win over Oregon in Peach Bowl
The top-ranked Hoosiers will play No. 10 seed Miami, which advanced with a 31-27 victory over Mississippi on Thursday night in the first CFP semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl.
IU, Oregon coaches and coordinators juggle transfer portal chaos amid playoff race
In October, the Indianapolis-based NCAA shifted from two portal windows to one. The 15-day transactional window now spans from Jan. 2-16, giving players and coaches alike just over two weeks to set themselves up for success the following season.
Travel planners gear up for IU’s Peach Bowl appearance—and beyond
As thousands of IU football fans travel or otherwise celebrate the Hoosiers’ upcoming Peach Bowl appearance, local hospitality organizations juggle planning for Friday’s game and for a potential championship.
Oregon’s Lanning and Indiana’s Cignetti hope to outwit each other as teams meet again in CFP
Cignetti said his study sessions ahead of the Hoosiers’ rematch with Oregon have been derailed as he and the campus host more than a dozen prospective players from the transfer portal.
Indiana routs Alabama for its first Rose Bowl victory, roaring into College Football Playoff semifinals
The win is Indiana’s first Rose Bowl title and the program’s first bowl game win since the Copper Bowl in 1991.