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It seems unbelievable — but it’s true. The college football program that started this season with the most losses all-time of any major college football team just went undefeated and won the College Football National Championship.
It sounds more like a movie than a true story. How did it happen?
Indiana University hired a new coach two years ago. Curt Cignetti had never been the head coach of a major college program. Cignetti was an assistant coach for almost 30 years before he got his first head coaching shot. He did not even become a head coach until he was 50 years old.
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His first head coaching job was at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Division II school. He was an assistant coach at Alabama and had to take a pay cut just to get the job.
He then went to coach Elon College, a Division I FCS school. And from there he coached at James Madison University, a Division I FBS school. He had success at every school, reaching the playoffs at........