EUGENE, Ore. — Indiana football athletic director Scott Dolson thought back to his first conversation with Curt Cignetti while watching the No. 7 Hoosiers kneel out a 30-20 upset win over No. 2 Oregon from the sideline at Autzen Stadium on Saturday.

That's when the longtime coach laid out his blueprint for turning a long-suffering IU program (6-0; 3-0 Big Ten) that was a perennial punching bag in the Big Ten into a national power. Cignetti spoke with the confidence of a coach that's won at every level and every school he's been at.

Dolson didn't anticipate Cignetti bringing that vision to life in less than two years — the Hoosiers have won more games over the past two seasons than any two-year stretch in program history — but the administrator has long since abandoned putting a ceil

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