WEST LAFAYETTE — This weekend, Indiana finally shed the dishonor of college football’s losingest program, and then delivered the kind of win that suggests the Hoosiers might be recoding their DNA for good.

Saturday’s 27-24 win at Penn State — the first in State College in program history — immediately writes an origin story for this era of IU football, Omar Cooper Jr.’s remarkable toe-touch touchdown catch its moment frozen in time. Fernando Mendoza might have delivered his Heisman moment, as the No. 2 Hoosiers very possibly sewed up their place in both the Big Ten title game and the College Football Playoff.

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