“Hoosiers” — the tale of a tiny high school winning the state basketball tournament — is the greatest underdog story ever told out of Indiana.
Yet as much as little Hickory High was an unlikely champion, it wasn’t completely improbable. The sweet shooting Jimmy Chitwood, after all, was the equivalent of a 5-star talent. He just happened to grow up on a nearby farm. Not even mighty South Bend Central had an answer for him.
The current Indiana Hoosiers football team — the one that sits 10-0 and is ranked fifth in the country heading into a mega clash no one saw coming at No.