For the first time in 20 years, rain is expected to intrude on the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl in Southern California. Thousands of Indiana University fans are expected to make the trip.
A team that was once an afterthought in its community has unleashed a new brand of Hoosiers fans, who are traveling in masses from Bloomington to Pasadena to witness the program’s biggest game since 1968.
The IU coach believes his four seasons working with Nick Saban helped him learn how to prioritize organization, avoid complacency and maintain high standards.
The latest move keeps two-time AP Coach of the Year Curt Cignetti and two of his most loyal and dependable assistants together for several seasons.
Cignetti was a landslide winner for coach of the year in voting by the nationwide panel of 52 media members who cover college football.
In the suit, the players allege they suffered measurable losses, including a loss of value of their scholarships, loss of academic and employment positions, physical injury and emotional harm.
The quarterback—the first football player from IU to win the Heisman Trophy—told head coach Curt Cignetti, “You drove me to a level I didn’t even know I had inside me.”
Mendoza became the first Hoosier to win college football’s most prestigious award since its inception in 1935.
Mendoza, the Hoosiers’ first-year starter after transferring from California, is the triggerman for an offense that surpassed program records for touchdowns and points set during last season’s surprise run to the CFP.
Joking aside, Matta knows that navigating roster turnover is now the name of the game in major college basketball.
Mendoza enters this weekend having won the Associated Press Player of the Year Award and as the the favorite to win college football’s most prestigious individual award.
Notre Dame is opting out of bowl eligibility after being left out of the College Football Playoff. Meanwhile, Indiana University secured the No. 1 seed in the CFP.
The No. 2 Hoosiers won their first Big Ten Conference football title since 1967 by upsetting the top team in the nation and the defending national champs.
Downtown hotels are expected to be almost entirely sold out for both Friday and Saturday nights, and ticket prices for the game are soaring on the resale market.
After completing the first perfect regular season in school history, the No. 2 Hoosiers will face off against No. 1 Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium.
If Indiana University and Ohio State win this week against rivals Purdue and Michigan, they’d both bring undefeated overall records into the Big Ten Conference title game in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA announced in August a series of punishments for a sprawling scandal that has loomed over the Wolverines for two years.
To their surprise, they reside both in the pretty college town they craved and amid the kind of buzzy air available only from a stark-raving football powerhouse.
The class-action lawsuit would affect more than 7,700 men and women who worked as volunteer coaches in sports other than baseball, according to a motion for preliminary approval filed this week.
The NCAA said last month that it had been investigating at least 30 current or former players for gambling issues.
