BLOOMINGTON — After an offseason spent tearing down Indiana ’s achievements in 2024, college football gave the Hoosiers their due Sunday.

The sport’s reaction to Indiana dismantling previously top-10 Illinois in primetime Saturday night marked a pronounced shift in tone. After spending the spring and summer picking every nit imaginable in an effort to discredit Curt Cignetti ’s first season in Bloomington as little more than a product of a fortuitous schedule , just about everyone with a hand on The Narrative was prepared to acknowledge that IU football might not have been a one-hit wonder after all .

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