US EditionIndiana's Curt Cignetti Wins Coach of the Year Award for 2nd Straight Season
Curt Cignetti led Indiana to a 13-0 season, Big Ten title, and coached the school's first Heisman winner, securing 47 of 52 first-place votes for AP Coach of the Year.
- The Associated Press named Curt Cignetti, Indiana head coach, coach of the year again after he outdid himself this year.
- Cignetti, 64, rebuilt the program after leaving James Madison and helped the Hoosiers surpass 700 all-time losses, entering this season with 714 losses.
- In AP voting, Cignetti received 47 first-place votes from a nationwide panel of 52 media members, winning in a landslide over other coaches.
- Indiana finished 13-0, won the Big Ten for the first time since 1967 and earned the College Football Playoff top seed, while Curt Cignetti coached Fernando Mendoza, the Hoosiers' first Heisman Trophy winner.
- Historically, Cignetti is the first coach to win back-to-back AP awards since 1998 and is the fourth two-time winner, joining Kelly, Patterson, and Saban, after his 13-10 Big Ten victory last week.
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