Curt Cignetti becomes the fourth Indiana football coach to win a national Coach of the Year award of any kind.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana has had a historic football season – the greatest in Indiana’s history at 11-1 with a College Football Playoff bid to go with it.On Thursday night, Cignetti was named the Home Depot National Coach of the Year. His award was presented as part of the College Football Awards Show broadcast on ESPN.
Indiana’s eight Big Ten wins are also a program record. The Hoosiers finished a game behind Oregon for the Big Ten regular season championship. Cignetti is the only Indiana coach to start his first season at 4-0 and is the only non-Ohio State or non-Michigan Big Ten coach to begin his career with a 10-0 record since 1936. Ryan Day , Urban Meyer , Earle Bruce , Bennie Oosterbaan and Carroll Widdoes are the others.The Home Depot Coach Of The Year award is one of many that cites a national coach of the year.
The national honors come a little more than a week after Cignetti was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year by both his peers and by the Big Ten media.
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