Curt Cignetti
American football coach (born 1961)
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- Curtis John Cignetti ( born June 2, 1961) is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Indiana University Bloomington.
- Cignetti is a five-time conference coach of the year and a two-time national coach of the year.
- During his first season at Indiana, he was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year after leading the Hoosiers to a program-record 11 wins and their first-ever College Football Playoff berth.
- In the national championship game, Cignetti led the Hoosiers to their first national championship in program history.
- Cignetti's tenure at Indiana, having turned the losingest program in college football history into national champions, has been regarded as one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of college football, with some arguing it as one of the greatest in the history of American sports.
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WikipediaCurtis John Cignetti ( born June 2, 1961) is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Indiana University Bloomington. He previously served as the head coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 2011 to 2016, Elon University from 2017 to 2018, and James Madison University from 2019 to 2023.
Cignetti is a five-time conference coach of the year and a two-time national coach of the year. He is the only college football coach to have started 10–0 with two different teams in consecutive seasons, achieving this unique distinction with James Madison University in 2023 and Indiana University in 2024. During his first season at Indiana, he was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year after leading the Hoosiers to a program-record 11 wins and their first-ever College Football Playoff berth.
In 2025, he repeated as Big Ten Coach of the Year as Indiana completed the first 12–0 regular season in school history and won their first Big Ten Conference title since 1967 and the first outright title since 1945. In the national championship game, Cignetti led the Hoosiers to their first national championship in program history. With this championship win, the Hoosiers became the first FBS team to compile a perfect 16-win season since the 1894 Yale Bulldogs.
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