The Hoosiers revived a mascot Aug. 30, 2025. Here's why they settled on reviving the mascot, what it is and what it has to do with Indiana.

If Indiana had an average roster age of 23, that would make the Hoosiers only two years younger than the Packers, who reached the playoffs this season. More likely, Indiana's average age among starters is closer to 22, which still leaves a comfortable gap with the Packers even if Cignetti's team does rely heavily on experience.

No. 4 Michigan hosts Indiana in a matchup of Big Ten teams. The teams match up Tuesday for the first time this season.

If the Hoosiers beat the Hurricanes in Miami, there will be an entire offseason for deliberating their place in history.

Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti watches the second half of a game between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in first round of the College Football Playoff on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, in South Bend. Notre Dame defeated Indiana 27-17. | Christine Tannous/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Though some college football fans might consider No. 1 Indiana's historic run to the College Football Playoff National Championship game on Monday night a Cinderella story, IU president Pamela Whitten told ESPN on Sunday that this was exactly what coach Curt Cignetti was hired to do.

What Curt Cignetti has done with his Hoosiers has changed the conversation for many college football programs, and for the Big Ten vs SEC power balance.

The 2025 Hoosiers have proven that you don't need a roster stocked with former blue-chippers to be elite in college football.

Indiana is duking it out with college football's biggest spenders in the transfer market, and the Hoosiers are more than holding their own

Whenever Caitlin Clark was asked about the Indiana Fever having the No. 1 pick of the 2024 WNBA Draft during her final college season at the University of Iowa,