Indiana’s Big Ten Championship victory didn’t just shock the conference, it has sent waves across college football , drawing reactions from analysts who spent decades viewing the Hoosiers as a perennial bottom-tier program.

One of those voices was Colin Cowherd, whose surprise at Indiana’s transformation came through in a humorous, backhanded compliment that quickly started taking rounds, because of the unreal demonstration.

“The Indiana Hoosiers being a football POWER is still hard for me to wrap my brain around. Mostly because I had a TV from 1972 to 2023,” Cowherd posted on X, formerly Twitter.

His post referenced the program’s long history of losing as Indiana (13-0) entered this season with the most losses in FBS history, while acknowledging the program’s stunning turnaround un

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