Curt Cignetti: podcast appearances and interviews

Curt Cignetti is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Indiana University Bloomington. He previously served as the head coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2016, Elon University from 2017 to 2018, and James Madison University from 2019 to 2023. Cignetti is a five-time conference coach of the year and has been recognized as a two-time national coach of the year. He is notable for being the only college football coach to start 10–0 with two different teams in consecutive seasons, achieving this milestone with James Madison University in 2023 and Indiana University in 2024. During his first season at Indiana, he earned the Big Ten Coach of the Year award after leading the Hoosiers to a program-record 11 wins and earning their first-ever College Football Playoff berth. In 2025, he was honored again as Big Ten Coach of the Year as Indiana completed the first 12–0 regular season in school history, secured their first Big Ten Conference title since 1967, and achieved their first outright title since 1945. That season culminated in Indiana winning its first national championship in program history, marking the first time an FBS team had completed a perfect 16-win season since the 1894 Yale Bulldogs. Cignetti’s successful leadership transformed Indiana from one of the losingest programs in college football history into national champions, a turnaround regarded as one of the greatest in college football and American sports history.