This article was originally published on www.si.com/onsi/athlete-lifestyle as Curt Cignetti's Daughter Natalie in Spotlight Sharing Private Text With Indiana Coach. The Indiana Hoosiers captured the football program's first-ever NCAA National Championship with their 27-21 victory over the Miami Hurricanes on January 20.

Curt Cignetti enjoyed himself a Hoosier Gameday Lager from the Upland Brewery after Indiana won the national championship on Monday night.

The “Google Me” man, Curt Cignetti, just added a Natty feather into both his own cap and Indiana’s. With just 13 bowl trips in 130-plus years, the script flipped to a perfect 16-0 Natty run in the 2025-26 season.

The Hoosiers’ coach raked it in with a perfect 16-0 season that delivered the school’s first-ever football national championship.

Indiana coach Curt Cignetti has officially confirmed he's happy to have brought the first national championship in football program history to Bloomington.

In his halftime interview with ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Cignetti ripped the officials for missing what he termed three “obvious personal fouls.” All three came on late or unnecessary hits on Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza, he said, one of which left the Heisman Trophy winner with a bloodied lip.

Curt Cignetti gave a signature reaction to his Indiana Hoosiers’ punt block for a touchdown in the College Football Playoff national title game against Miami.