ESPN's Paul Finebaum spent most of the 2025 college football season talking down to Indiana football and Curt Cignetti. On Wednesday, Jan. 21, Finebaum released a video less than a minute-long admitting, "Almost everything I said throughout the season about him and about Indiana was wrong."
The Hoosiers capped off a historic 16-0 season with a 27-21 win over Miami in the College Football Playoff national championship on Monday, Jan. 19.
Just last week, Finebaum called Indiana "a cute story." Now, he says, "It is the greatest story in the history of the game."
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Indiana fans, and college football fans in general, have taken the SEC Network host to task over the past few weeks for his reluctance to give credit to Cignetti and Indiana and get beyond his obvious brand bias.
