Author: Seth Tow

It’s party time for Indiana football fans. The Hoosiers completed a historic 16-0 season Monday night with a 27-21 win over Miami, bringing home their first-ever national championship. IU announced early plans for a championship celebration on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. Further details are in the graphic below. For complete coverage of IU football, GO HERE. The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Find us on Instagram, X, and Facebook Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no cost to you.

Less than 24 hours after Indiana football captured its first-ever national championship, the program saw two notable departures. Per reports, redshirt freshman quarterback Alberto Mendoza entered the transfer portal Tuesday morning. And director of athletic performance Derek Owings is leaving IU for a similar position at Tennessee. The Volunteers officially announced Owings’ hire Tuesday afternoon. Mendoza served as Indiana’s primary backup quarterback this season, behind his older brother, Fernando. The younger Mendoza entered nine games this season, primarily in mop-up duty. He flashed potential in some games, particularly with his 65-yard run at Purdue. But after the Hoosiers added TCU…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — As Bray Lynch witnessed the culmination of one of the greatest sports stories ever told, he couldn’t contain his emotion any longer. Indiana football — yes, that Indiana football — captured a national championship. The Hoosiers completed a perfect 16-0 season, becoming the first team to do so since the 1890s. Head coach Curt Cignetti hoisted the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy to deafening roars from the Indiana contingent at Hard Rock Stadium. Several of this immaculate team’s star players surrounded him while doing so: linebacker Aiden Fisher, wide receivers Elijah Sarratt and Charlie Becker, quarterback…

MIAMI — Indiana football has done it. Curt Cignetti has pulled off the unthinkable. The Hoosiers spent decade after decade toiling away on the football field, with very fleeting positive moments providing respite from — until November — the most losses in college football history. But on Jan. 19, 2026, that same program has reached the mountaintop. IU football captured its first-ever national championship, defeating Miami 27-21 in the title game at Hard Rock Stadium. The Hoosiers cap off a perfect 16-0 season that will go down among the best in the modern history of the sport. IU had to…

MIAMI — When Curt Cignetti, his coaching staff, and his army of James Madison transfers arrived in Bloomington to begin one of the greatest turnarounds in sports history in December 2023, it put Indiana football’s existing players in difficult positions. The JMU players who followed Cignetti to IU couldn’t know what the jump to Big Ten football would look like, but they knew what Cignetti and his staff were all about. Those players worked with most of the same coaches for extensive time in Harrisonburg, Va. And that group, with players like Elijah Sarratt, Kaelon Black, Mikail Kamara, Aiden Fisher,…

MIAMI — Throughout Indiana football’s historic 2025-26 season, Amare Ferrell took a meaningful moment before running out on the field for each game. After the safety put his jersey and pads on, he hung up a different jersey in his locker, whether at Memorial Stadium or on the road. The custom IU jersey has his No. 1 on both the front, with “Tawanna J.” on the back. That jersey has hung in Ferrell’s locker during every Indiana game this season. The junior hugs and kisses it before putting it up, and then runs out on the field. The jersey is…

Watch as Indiana head football coach Curt Cignetti met with the media after the Hoosiers landed in Miami ahead of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Video by Seth Tow for TDH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G2VevJbv3o&pp=ygUNZGFpbHkgaG9vc2llcg%3D%3D For complete coverage of IU football, GO HERE.  The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Find us on Instagram, X, and Facebook Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no cost to you.

IU’s defense faces an interesting challenge on Monday night against Miami’s offense in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. The Hurricanes enter the season’s final game ranked 30th in the country with 31.6 points per game. Indiana’s defense is second in the nation at only 11.1 points per game allowed. UM’s offense has committed 14 turnovers this season, tying for 34th in the country. The Hoosiers are tied for third in the nation with 29 takeaways on the year. Here’s more on Miami’s offense and how it matches up against IU. On the ground The Hurricanes own a 90.3…

Indiana women’s basketball continued its slide on Wednesday. IU dropped its sixth consecutive game, this one an 82-63 defeat against Washington at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. By the time the Hoosiers take the court for their next game against No. 14 Ohio State on Jan. 22, they’ll have gone over a full month since their last win. Indiana (11-8, 0-7 Big Ten) is off to its worst start in conference play in Teri Moren’s 12 seasons as head coach. Washington (13-4, 3-3) entered this contest on a two-game losing streak, itself, but the Huskies had little trouble dismantling the Hoosiers…

Some concerning trends are emerging for Indiana men’s basketball in its bigger games this season. The Hoosiers have displayed some self-destructive tendencies against Louisville, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Michigan State — the four best teams they’ve played thus far. For a veteran team with a lot of college basketball experience — even if not at IU — that’s an issue. Tuesday’s 81-60 loss to Michigan State at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich. featured sloppy turnovers, an extended offensive slump, and abysmal rebounding. Indiana (12-5, 3-3 Big Ten) committed six turnovers in the second half, which isn’t an abnormally high…