Truly, there’s never a bad time to blow out a conference foe on the road in a historic and venerated stadium to continue your undefeated start to the season.
But Indiana’s 42-13 beatdown of new Big Ten rival UCLA came at an ideal time in the season and tenure of Curt Cignetti. The Hoosiers’ new head coach has been generating headlines and national discussion since he was hired an- wait what?
Indiana... football’s(?) new coach is being discussed by the national media? That Indiana? The one in Bloomington?
The program hasn’t been known as a successful one throughout its existence and the glory years are few and far between, drowning gasps for air before a cold wave of regression washes back over it.