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BREAKING: Indiana wins Big Ten Championship

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The Indiana football program is your 2025 Big Ten Champion, taking down Ohio State 13-10 on Saturday.

This is the first Big Ten championship in program history and the first conference championship of any kind for Indiana since 1945.

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Indiana finished with notable wins over No. 3 Oregon, No. 9 Illinois and Iowa this season. It knocked off Oregon in Autzen Stadium, which at that point held the nation’s longest winning streak. It defeated No. 9 Illinois 63-10.

Indiana won multiple Big Ten games by 50+ points this season (Illinois, UCLA, Purdue).

Indiana also went into Happy Valley and took down Penn State for the first time in its program history.

The biggest question for Indiana this year? How was it different from a season ago when it went 11-2 with losses to Ohio State and Notre Dame.

“We were kind of lurking in the weeds, so to speak, after last year,” Curt Cignetti said last week. “We had gotten hammered so badly because of how we played against Ohio State and Notre Dame. We didn’t talk about it, but it was there. It was there every day, every hour, every minute.”

Cignetti took over an Indiana program that was had the most losses in college football history and in two years has built it into a Big Ten champion and a 24-2 overall record.

“Was the moment too big for that football team?” Cignetti said. “Really — objectively — you’d have to almost say it was.

“While that was not an enjoyable experience, it was an experience that was necessary for our growth and development to go into a hostile environment like Ohio State and play a team of that quality.”

Indiana has finished the regular season and Big Ten season now at 13-0 and will be the No. 1 team in the country and the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff. Indiana is the last remaining unbeaten team in the country.

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