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WATCH: Curt Cignetti press conference, fall camp week four
Indiana football entered its fourth and final week of Fall camp on Monday with the Hoosiers set for game week preparation next week ahead of the season opener. Curt Cignetti, as he has on camp Mondays, addressed the media yesterday to discuss the week ahead while answering questions on how Josh Hoover has progressed throughout […]
ESPN analyst sees Indiana as the Big Ten’s strongest national title contender in 2026
Indiana football has had (far) more than its fair share of doubters since Curt Cignetti arrived in the winter of 2023. Nationally-baed proponents of Cignetti’s turnaround in Bloomington were few and far between prior to the Hoosiers’ run to the national championship in 2025. ESPN’s Kevin Clark, speaking with one of the program’s loudest detractors […]
Where Indiana football lands in The Athletic’s ranking of all 138 FBS teams
We’re within weeks of the start of the college football season and you know what that means: preseason rankings. The usual suspects, the USA Today Coaches Poll and the AP Top-25, have been out for weeks now and have the Hoosiers at No. 6 entering 2026. But what about the fun ones? The Athletic goes […]
Indiana football 2026 position preview: Cornerbacks
With the 2026 Indiana football season rapidly approaching, we’re going through the Hoosiers’ roster with position by position previews as the program moves into a post-national title era. We’ll be previewing the offense first this week with the defense following next week. Follow along! Positions – Defense Cornerbacks Jamari Sharpe – Sr (5) I mean, […]
Indiana football 2026 position preview: Linebackers
With the 2026 Indiana football season rapidly approaching, we’re going through the Hoosiers’ roster with position by position previews as the program moves into a post-national title era. We’ll be previewing the offense first this week with the defense following next week. Follow along! Positions Linebackers Isaiah Jones – Sr (5) Jones’ 2025 production speaks […]
Indiana football has two great coordinators. Appreciate it while you can
When Indiana football inked both Bryant Haines and Mike Shanahan to contract extensions this past December, it knew it was only buying time. That was before the National Championship and Haines winning the 2025 Broyles Award, presented to the nation’s top assistant coach. Like the Heisman trophy and National Championship, it was Indiana’s first time […]
Assessing Indiana’s defensive line after Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt lose their eligibility
Well. For a week there, Indiana probably had one of the deepest, most distruptive disruptive defensive lines in college football. Now it just has the latter. To be extraordinarily clear on that point: Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt are both tremendously impactful football players, that’s not a slight against either’s ability on the field. It’s […]
Candystripe Catchup: Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt, Indiana’s win total, NIL spending
It’s been a pretty big week around Indiana Athletics as the Fall sports season gets started with men’s and women’s soccer and football looming large. The biggest news came right here at the end of the week with Indiana football defensive linemen Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt losing their previously granted fifth seasons of eligibility […]
Indiana football’s Kellan Wyatt and Stephen Daley ruled ineligible for 2026
In a new opinion, issued Friday, August 21, the 10th circuit granted the NCAA a stay of the preliminary injunction issued earlier in favor of Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt. The new ruling renders the two players ineligible, pending another decision down the line. Wisne v. NCAA, the case at issue here, had resulted in […]
Indiana football 2026 position preview: Offensive line
With the 2026 Indiana football season rapidly approaching, we’re going through the Hoosiers’ roster with position by position previews as the program moves into a post-national title era. We’ll be previewing the offense first this week with the defense following next week. Follow along Positions Carter Smith – Sr (5) Smith needs little introduction for […]
Indiana football 2026 position preview: Tight ends
With the 2026 Indiana football season rapidly approaching, we’re going through the Hoosiers’ roster with position by position previews as the program moves into a post-national title era. We’ll be previewing the offense first this week with the defense following next week. Follow along Positions Note: This is probably the most interesting position on Indiana’s […]
Former Indiana forward Reed Bailey transfers to St. Johns, joins Rick Pitino
Both members of Indiana men’s basketball’s 2025-26 center rotation are back in college basketball with fifth years of eligibility. Just one will suit up for the Hoosiers again. Sam Alexis announced his return in the wake of the program’s international trip to Lima, for which he joined the roster to give the Hoosiers another option […]
5 Hoosiers headline The Athletic’s college football preseason All-America team
Gotten used to seeing Hoosiers on All-America lists? Well, do I have some good news for you. Indiana football led the way in The Athletic’s 2026 preseason All-America team with five selections, tied with Big Ten rival Oregon to lead all programs. The Hoosiers boast two first-teamers and three second-teamers, all of whom are returners […]
Is Indiana’s defensive line the best in the country? Hoosier fans think so
Indiana football’s 2026 defensive line was already set to be formidable with the return of Tyrique Tucker and Mario Landino on the interior and the additions of former Kansas State defensive linemen Tobi Osunsanmi and Chiddi Obiazor. Then the news came that Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt, key members of the 2025 unit, would return […]
Hoosiers Daily News: How much did Indiana football spend on its 2026 roster?
Nobody knows the official NIL numbers for teams or individuals around college sports and I suspect we never truly will, but there’s enough reporting out there to piece together a few things. One such thing is this: Indiana football, in two years under head coach Curt Cignetti, hasn’t been among the top spenders in the […]
Indiana football 2026 position preview: Running backs
With the 2026 Indiana football season rapidly approaching, we’re going through the Hoosiers’ roster with position by position previews as the program moves into a post-national title era. We’ll be previewing the offense first this week with the defense following next week. Follow along Positions Turbo Richard – Sr (5) A four-star transfer prospect, Turbo […]
WATCH: Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti press conference, Fall camp week 3
Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti addressed the media on Monday to open up the third week of Fall camp ahead of the Hoosiers’ 2026 season. Cignetti was asked about the roster’s depth three years into his tenure, that of the offensive line in particular, the first scrimmage of the Fall. He emphasized player development […]
Hoosiers Daily News: Is Indiana being doubted again ahead of 2026?
Indiana football has very little to prove under Curt Cignetti moving forward. The Hoosiers won a national championship in year two of his tenure, something nigh unthinkable just 24 months prior. They were given twelve games to play and ended up winning sixteen. Despite this, Indiana will open the 2026 season outside of the top-5 […]
Indiana football 2026 position preview: Wide receivers
With the 2026 Indiana football season rapidly approaching, we’re going through the Hoosiers’ roster with position by position previews. Indiana, coming off of its first national title in program history, lost a fair amount of production to the NFL Draft and exhausted eligibility this past offseason. The Hoosiers’ staff hit the portal to fill in […]
Report: Indiana AD Scott Dolson signs contract extension
If you want to win championships, go to Indiana. Scott Dolson, whose time with Indiana University began as an undergraduate student in the 1980s, has signed n amended contract to continue serving as the Hoosiers’ athletic director through 2031, per reporting from Michael Niziolek of the Herald-Times. The contract comes with a pay raise and […]
Indiana football survey: Projecting the Hoosiers’ win total in 2026
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Indiana fans and fans across the country. Indiana football is coming off of the sport’s first 16-0 season in over a century and the program’s first national championship. The Hoosiers, after losing plenty […]
Hoosiers Daily News: Curt Cignetti sounds off on Notre Dame
We really aren’t gonna escape this weird Indiana-Notre Dame… thing anytime soon, huh? The Hoosiers and Fighting Irish are in the news again, this time because Curt Cignetti was asked about it during an appearance on Big Ten Network this past weekend. “Yeah, I’d like to play Notre Dame,” Cignetti said. “They oughta come to […]
Indiana football 2026 position preview: Quarterbacks
With the 2026 Indiana football season rapidly approaching, we’re going through the Hoosiers’ roster with position by position previews. Indiana, coming off of its first national title in program history, lost a fair amount of production to the NFL Draft and exhausted eligibility this past offseason. The Hoosiers’ staff hit the portal to fill in […]
The Josh Hoover and Fernando Mendoza debate is not real
Towards the middle August, just after the MLB All-Star Break but before college football officially kicks off, we enter the Take Zone for football writers. In the absence of bigger stories like transfers, coaching moves or injuries, a few topics surrounding big-name programs get taken up by the big media outlets. At that point, everyone […]
Candystripe Catchup: Curt Cignetti’s Rece Davis interview, Josh Hoover, more
It’s been a decently busy week of news for the Hoosiers, which is to be expected with football season rapidly approaching. For starters, Curt Cignetti sat for an insightful interview over a film session with ESPN’s Rece Davis. Cignetti walked Davis through a few key plays from the 2025 season, broke down tape of some […]
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