BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti's lengthy resume helped him navigate his team's lethargic start in a 31-7 win over Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon.

The No. 2 Hoosiers (11-0, 8-0 Big Ten) hardly looked like four-touchdown favorites in the early going against a Wisconsin team mired in a season-long offensive slump and down to their third-string quarterback, Carter Smith, a freshman making his first career start.

"Sixth game in a row at the end of the year and it showed, I thought, in the first half," Cignetti said. "We looked kind of tired."

Indiana was lucky to go into the break with a 10-7 lead on the heels of a wobbly 37-yard field goal from Nico Radicic into the wind.

Cignetti's mind drifted back a few years as he walked off the field at the half. He thought

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