Tom Allen has a simple one-word motto for this year's Indiana football team: breakthrough.
The Hoosiers have come close to scoring upsets against several high-profile opponents the past two seasons. They made back-to-back bowl games for the first time in a quarter century but lost both in heartbreaking fashion, too.
Allen is hoping to stop coming close and to start getting over the hump. He experienced his own breakthrough in December, when Indiana shockingly fired Kevin Wilson days after the season finale and promoted Allen to his first college head-coaching job. He is busy putting his own stamp on the program, though the 2017 recruiting class doesn't reflect that in a large way.