Alabama has done the early work. Head coach Kalen DeBoer, GM Courtney Morgan, and WRs coach Derrick Nix were in Indianapolis this month to see Monshun “Bama” Sales at Lawrence North High School.

Leading Indiana football to a 16-0 record and national championship led to various bonuses in coach Curt Cignetti's contract. Here's a full breakdown.

In 2018, Jeff Bourne chose Cignetti as James Madison's football coach. For Bourne, Cignetti’s success wasn’t an outlier. It was a pattern

Indiana rewarded head coach Curt Cignetti with a raise and contract extension in October as other schools started showing interest in the 64-year-old. ESPN college football analyst Paul Finebaum was asked at the time if Indiana was making the right choice by agreeing to pay Cignetti $11.

Indiana’s championship win is doing more than writing a new history. The Hoosiers are already using their title to their advantage, and this time, it’s aimed straight against Ohio State.

The Indiana leader included the Huskies in his final Coaches' Poll balloting.

Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers received a strong prediction from Joel Klatt for next season without Fernando Mendoza.

Curt Cignetti, the Indiana football head coach who led a bad-bad-not-good program to its first undefeated College Football Playoff championship season, thinks Texas was an underrated program this season.