No. 5 Indiana Hosts No. 4 Ohio State on 22-Game Streak After 2025 CFP Title
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 17
No. 5 Indiana Hosts No. 4 Ohio State on 22-Game Streak After 2025 CFP Title
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 17
Summary
Bloomington is bracing for its biggest football weekend in decades as No. 5 Indiana prepares to host No. 4 Ohio State, with packed bars, long merchandise lines and a campus atmosphere reshaped by last season’s national title.
Curt Cignetti’s two-year turnaround is driving that surge: Indiana won the 2025 CFP championship and has turned a program once overshadowed by basketball into one where fans now openly expect victories.
Saturday’s game carries rare historical weight — Indiana brings a 22-game winning streak into its first top-five matchup at Memorial Stadium since 1960.
Ohio State remains a measuring-stick opponent for the revival: the Hoosiers have not beaten the Buckeyes in Bloomington since 1988, though they ended a 30-year skid against them in last season’s Big Ten title game.
Indiana’s rise has become a model across college football, raising pressure on other athletic departments to replicate how quickly Cignetti rebuilt a former also-ran into a national contender.