The Indiana Hoosiers pulled out one of the most impressive seasons in College Football history. Capping the season off with a perfect 16-0 season, this season will for sure be remembered as a shocking season across all of college football, and I am sure if you said at the beginning of the season that Indiana would be facing off in the College Football championship as the number one overall team, without losing a single game all season, most people who watch football or have general football knowledge would call you a crazy person. Much of this win is attributed to head coach Curt Cignetti, who has pulled together a great team with the little resources that the Indiana football team has supplied him with. Cignetti’s method for his success was to find older players who had much experience and were undervalued by many teams who were more focused on younger and highly rated players. He built his team around quarterback Fernando Mendoza, a transfer from Cal Berkeley. Mendoza finished his season as the consensus best quarterback this year, finishing with 3,535 yards passing, 41 passing touchdowns, only six interceptions, and a 90.3 quarterback rating (QBR) which was the highest recorded by any quarterback this year. Many of the other Indiana players did not have crazy stats to solidify them as a NFL prospect, or a worthy name to know, but all of Cignetti’s players were hard workers and had the grit that the team needed to get them the national championship that they desired. During their post season they absolutely dominated all of the opponents they played. This was evident as Indiana outscored their post season opponents by 75 points in 3 games, more impressively outscoring their first two opponents, Oregon and Alabama, by a whopping 69 points. The Indiana Hoosiers football team finished the regular season undefeated with a 12-0 record, the first perfect regular season in program history and a 9-0 mark in Big Ten play. They scored a total of 666 points over 16 games, averaging about 41.6 points per game, which ranked among the top offenses nationally. Defensively, Indiana was locked down, allowing just 187 points all season, an average of 11.7 points per game, one of the best stats in the country. Statistically, Indiana piled up 7,232 total offensive yards, including 3,826 passing yards and 3,406 rushing yards, with a team average of 6.8 yards per play. The Hoosiers forced 46 sacks and limited opponents to under 4.7 yards per play overall. Key individual contributors included quarterback Fernando Mendoza, who threw for nearly 3,000 yards and was a central part of the Hoosiers’ high-tempo attack. On the ground, Indiana averaged about 213 rushing yards per game, helping control time of possession and balance the offense. The Hoosiers capped the regular season with a 56-3 rout of rival Purdue, clinching their Big Ten title game berth and maintaining their undefeated streak.