Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti was awarded two more national coach of the year awards Tuesday.
The Associated Press and the Walter Camp Football Foundation honored the first-year coach after he led one of the most remarkable single-season turnarounds in college football history.
Cignetti took over a program that had won just three Big Ten games in the past three years and guided the Hoosiers to an 8-1 record in the conference and 11-1 overall.
IU finished the regular season ranked ninth in the nation and will play at Notre Dame Friday night in the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoffs.
Cignetti has also won the American Football Coaches Association and Home Depot National Coach of the year awards. He also was named the Big Ten’s Coach of the Year by the league’s coaches and media.
He is the first IU coach to win the AP's Coach of the Year Award. Bo McMillin (1945), John Pont (1976) and Tom Allen (2020) all won the American Football Coaches Association Coach of the Year Award. Pont also won the Football Writers, Sporting News and Walter Camp Coach of the Year awards.
