The National Football Foundation traveled to Bloomington with its fabled national championship trophy to recognize the Indiana Hoosiers as the 2025 national champions.
IRVING, TEXAS (Jan. 25, 2026) – The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame yesterday formally presented the Indiana University football team and head coach Curt Cignetti with the MacArthur Bowl, the organization’s national championship trophy for the Football Bowl Subdivision, during the National Championship Celebration on Merchants Bank Field at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington.
2022 NFF Chris Schenkel Award recipient and the Voice of the Hoosiers for more than 50 years, Don Fisher emceed the event and NFF Trustee Jason Hanold made the presentation on behalf of the organization. Coach Cignetti accepted the award on behalf of his 2025 Indiana football team in front of a joyous crowd of around 15,000 fans who braved brutally cold weather and an impending snowstorm.
“You’re more than among the greatest teams, you’re arguably the greatest team,” said Hanold. “This two-year turnaround is unprecedented, and you’re the first team in the modern era to go 16-0, a feat last accomplished in 1894. There are many great Hoosier stories to be told, but I think this is the greatest. So, on behalf of the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame, our Chairman Archie Manning, CEO Steve Hatchell, our board of trustees and over 1,300 Hall of Fame inductees, I am pleased to present the MacArthur Bowl championship trophy for the first time ever to Coach Cignetti and his incredible Indiana Hoosier team.”
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