Indiana LB Addresses Curt Cignetti Cheating Allegations Head On After DC Took the High Road
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Indiana’s perfect 15-0 season has been so dominant that it’s spawned conspiracy theories. As the Hoosiers prepare to face Miami in the College Football Playoff National Championship, they’re fending off wild accusations that they’ve been hacking into opponents’ practice film and cloud-based game plans. The noise got loud enough that linebacker Aiden Fisher felt compelled to address the ridiculousness publicly.
“It’s just the way it’s played out. I’ve seen all the stuff about different things with our team. I mean, it’s just funny and kind of ridiculous to me,” Fisher said bluntly to the media on January 13th. “I mean, we watch film, we study, we prepare. I know a lot of people have put different things out. I mean, we just do a great job preparing. We have hints, we have things that we can see within our preparation. And then we have the best D coordinator in college football. So when you match up those things, you get off to fast starts as a defense.”
The numbers back up why people are losing their minds. Indiana has been historically dominant in ways that make you do a double-take. The Hoosiers have outscored their opponents 163-38 in their last four playoff games, including absolute demolitions of Alabama (38-3) and Oregon (56-15). Quarterback Fernando Mendoza has thrown for eight touchdowns and zero interceptions while completing 31 of 36 passes in those two CFP games. That’s an 86.1% completion rate against two of the best defenses in the country.
On the defensive side, they’ve forced 29 turnovers across 15 games and are holding opponents to just 11.1 points per game, second-best in the entire nation. Their +473 point differential is higher than the 2019 Clemson team’s +467 heading into a national title game. That dominance makes people question reality.
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