Indiana Hoosiers head football coach, Curt Cignetti was named the Home Depot National Coach of the Year on Thursday night at the Home Depot College Football Awards Show broadcast on ESPN.
Indiana's 11-1 regular season record and College Football Playoff berth made it an easy choice for the national media and voters to make Cignetti the winner of the National Coach of The Year award. Cignetti was also named Hayes-Schembechler and Dave McClain Coach of the Year in the Big Ten Conference earlier this month.
The best season in Hoosiers history was historic in many ways for the first year head coach. Cignetti became the fourth Indiana coach to earn national coach of the year award honors. Bo McMillin (1945, AFCA), John Pont (1967, AFCA, FWAA, Sporting News, Walter Camp) and Tom Allen (2020, AFCA) were also award winners previously.
He was also the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2012, the Colonial Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 2017 and Sun Belt Coach of the Year in 2023 in past years.
Indiana has reached the College Football Playoff for the first time in program history and will take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the CFP First Round next Friday in South Bend, Indiana on ABC/ESPN.
COACH CIG IS THE 2024 COACH OF THE YEAR‼️
— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) December 13, 2024
Curt Cignetti made a STATEMENT in his first season at Indiana, leading the Hoosiers to a CFP berth👏 pic.twitter.com/PauJpoFMGC