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Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti met with the media ahead of IU’s matchup first round playoff matchup with Notre Dame on Saturday.
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The Indiana Hoosiers added bulk to their defensive line for the 2025 season with the commitment of 300-pound defensive tackle Hosea Wheeler, a transfer from Western Kentucky university. The former Hilltopper played in 30 games at WKU and earned First Team All-Conference USA honors for his play in 2024 as he recorded 74 tackles (five TFLs), two sacks and two blocked kicks.
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The Indiana Hoosiers kicked off the portal season with the commitment of running back Lee Beebe from UAB and they continued it with a different kind of kicking as former UCF punter Mitch McCarthy joined the IU program as the second commit in the portal class. McCarthy has one year of eligibility remaining after punting for three seasons for the Knights. Originally from Australia, McCarthy trained at ProKick Australia in 2021 after injuries derailed his Australian Rules Football career. He averaged 41.3 yards per punt in 2023 and 44.13 on 40 punts in 2024. 17 of his 40 punts landed inside the opponents’ 20-yard line (42.5%) and five punts went more than 50 yards.
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The Indiana Hoosiers bolstered their kicking depth on Sunday as former Texas State kicker Brendan Franke committed to IU from the transfer portal. The Hoosiers had injury issues with their kickoff specialists in 2024 as their first two choices got hurt in the first month of the year. Franke will give IU another choice along with Quinn Warren in 2025.
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The Indiana Hoosiers portal haul should be close 20 members and on Sunday they added a playmaker to the secondary in former NIU cornerback Amariyun Knighten who will have two years of eligibility left when he joins the Hoosiers.
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College Football Playoff game week is finally here. The Hoosiers travel up to South Bend to take on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in the first round of the 2025 College Football Playoff. The Irish earned the 7th seed in the tournament while the Hoosiers got the 10 seed. Here is how the Irish have looked in 2024.
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The Hoosiers will get a familiar face back in the receivers room for 2025 as E.J. Williams withdrew his name for the transfer portal on Friday. Williams announced that he was opting for surgery and to preserve his final year of eligibility back in October.
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Curt Cignetti and his staff utilized the transfer portal to help put the Hoosiers into position for a special 2024 season. One year later, Cignetti is expected to bring in more than 15 new players from the portal as IU prepares for the 2025 campaign. On Friday afternoon, Indiana’s first commitment in this season’s portal class became official as former UAB Blazers running back Lee Beebe signed to play in Bloomington.
Read MoreHoosier Huddle's Ben Gillard braves the cold to find the Pulse of the Pregame before Indiana's 66-0 win over Purdue.
Read MoreIU Athletics Release
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana head football coach Curt Cignetti was named the Home Depot National Coach of the Year on Thursday (Dec. 12) night during the Home Depot College Football Awards Show broadcast on ESPN. He is the fourth Indiana head coach to win a national coach of the year award after orchestrating one of the biggest turnarounds in FBS history.
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