The Indiana Hoosiers continued their historic run through the College Football Playoff on Friday night with a stunning 56-22 dissection of the Oregon Ducks in the Peach Bowl. IU is now a win away from its first national championship as a program, which happened to be the team with the most losses in history until the Northwestern Wildcats recently surpassed them.
CBS Sports' John Talty and Shehan Jeyarajah believe that after destroying the Ducks, the Hoosiers have not only undone the sting of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish loss in the 2024/2025 CFP, but they've solidified themselves as the most dominant College Football team in "years."
"What Curt Cignetti has built at Indiana -- quite possibly the most dominant college football team we've seen in years -- is nothing short of remarkable. It's not just that he's winning, but how he's doing so. Indiana crushed Alabama in the Rose Bowl. It crushed Oregon in the Peach Bowl," Talty and Jeyarajah wrote.
"Everyone who thought Indiana's playoff run a year ago was a fluke has been proven painfully wrong. In fact, that criticism and the characterization of that Notre Dame loss has seemed to fuel this team's fire."
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Is IU more dominant than 2024 Ohio State, 2023 TTUN , and 2022 UGA?
When you're looking at the caveat of "most dominant team in years," you have to consider who was overlooked for that statement.
Obvious candidates include the last several champions: the 2024/2025 Ohio State Buckeyes, who destroyed the Tennessee Volunteers, Oregon, Texas Longhorns, and Notre Dame Fighting Irish en route to a title, and 2023/2024 TTUN and the 2022/2023 Georgia Bulldogs, which both went undefeated but didn't have to contend with a 12-team field.
That last statement probably disqualifies UGA and the Wolverines, because we don't know if they would've had the staying power to plow through a 12-team field. They probably could've, but we can't say for sure.
Ohio State losing two games, including to their rival, who went 6-6, greatly diminishes their shine. While they played one more CFP game than IU will have to, the Hoosiers played in the Big Ten Championship Game, defeating a Buckeyes squad that featured many of the pieces from that 2024/2025 team.
Different coaches, sure, but those details get drowned out when looking at a "greatest of all time" list. The wins matter more than anything, and Indiana already has more this year than Ohio State had last year.
Anyone pre-2021 didn't play in the NIL era, so it's tough to even qualify those champions. The 2020/2021 Alabama Crimson Tide have had several players break out at the NFL level, but they didn't even play a full schedule because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2019 LSU may be the only team on 2025 Indiana's level
The 2019/2020 LSU Tigers may have been the only comparable team to the current Hoosiers. That LSU team had seven wins against top-10 programs and had a margin of victory just under four touchdowns.
Those Tigers had far more talent than this Indiana team does. The difference is coaching, though, again, history won't care about these minute differences.
Cignetti and Ed Orgeron: the two faces of College Football dominance in the 21st century. Who would've thought?