The 2025 Indiana football season has been magical so far. Head coach Curt Cignetti has been the architect of reviving Indiana football and turning it into a powerhouse. Indiana is not known as a football powerhouse at all, and because of that, he has been speculated to move on to a better job. However, Indiana put their money where their mouth is and extended Cignetti for eight years .

Indiana has reached a new eight-year contract with Curt Cignetti, making him one of the highest-paid football coaches in the FBS. His annual average salary will be about $11.6 million, and his total salary will be about $93 million. According to Pete Thamel, the ESPN story by Mark Schlabach and Adam Rittenberg also specified that Cignetti's buyout increased, going from $10 million to $15 million .

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