At the start of the college football season, no Division I program had more losses in its history than Indiana’s 715 defeats.

But 15 weeks later, as we enter conference championship Saturday, that number remains unchanged as the 12-0 Hoosiers — ranked No. 2 in the country — prepare to face No. 1 Ohio State in Saturday’s Big Ten title game.

Indiana, the school and state synonymous with basketball, is now a pigskin powerhouse on the precipice of its second straight College Football Playoff.

The school’s fans are as shocked as everyone else.

“Hell no,” Mark Cuban, the billionaire multihyphenate and 1981 graduate of Indiana’s business school, told NBC News via email if he ever thought the Hoosiers would be on the same level as a blue blood like Ohio State. “I thought I would be dunking wit

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