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By Michael Gallagher
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It took Curt Cignetti just two seasons to turn the Indiana Hoosiers from laughing stock of the college football world to national champions.
Cignetti, who went 52-9 in four seasons at James Madison before landing in Bloomington, won 11 games in his first season before leading IU to a perfect 16-0 record last year, including wins over Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship Game, College Football Playoff wins over Alabama and Oregon, and a national title win over Miami.
But given their recent run of success, Cignetti and Indiana will no longer sneak up on anybody. In fact, the Hoosiers will likely get everyone’s best shot in every game next season because those teams all want to be the one to dethrone the defending national champions.
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But that doesn’t seem to bother Cignetti, who was asked how he feels about being the team everyone’s chasing during a recent episode of “Pardon My Take.”
“How are you going to handle being the hunted now that you’re at the top?” asked Eric Sollenberger, more widely known as PFT Commenter. “Now you’ve got a big target on your back.”
Always quick with a comeback, Cignetti replied without missing a beat while simultaneously putting the rest of the college football world on notice.
“I bought a bigger gun,” Cignetti quipped.
“… I believe in our blueprint plan process and the way we go about doing things, our ability to get everybody to think alike and perform to a standard. It’s worked in the past, and I don’t see any reason it shouldn’t work again.”
Cignetti has never been short on confidence.
After accepting the Indiana job, he would answer reporters who asked him how he planned to turn around the losingest college football program in the country, to which he’d reply: “It's pretty simple. I win. Google me.”
That bravado only appears to be stronger now, which isn’t great news for the rest of the FBS.
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