IU Head Football Coach Curt Cignetti Named Big Ten Coach of the Year
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.–Indiana Hoosier Head Football Coach Curt Cignetti was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year on Tuesday.
Cignetti has led the Hoosiers to an 11-1 record this year. The 11 victories are the most in program history and mark the first double-digit win season in Hoosier history. Likewise, the eight wins in Big Ten play are the most by an IU team since joining the conference in 1900.
The honor marks the fourth time in his career that he earned coach of the year accolades from the conference office, doing so once at each of his previous stops. He was the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2012, the Colonial Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 2017 and Sun Belt Coach of the Year in 2023.
He is the third Indiana head coach to win the Big Ten Coach of the Year award, with Tom Allen (2020) and Bill Mallory (1986) each winning both awards, while Mallory was also selected as the media’s coach of the year in 1987.
Cignetti was the first-ever Division I head coach to start 8-0 or better in consecutive seasons at different institutions. He led James Madison to a 10-0 mark to start the 2023 season and pushed Indiana to an identical mark to begin the 2024 campaign.
