The Indiana Hoosiers rose to the top of the College Football world with a 16-0 run to the national championship, the first such record in FBS history. It was the kind of run no observer of the sport would predict to happen in Bloomington.
Maybe Columbus, or Ann Arbor, or Tuscaloosa, or Athens. Or, if it had to be in Indiana, South Bend.
Now, writers are racking their brains trying to come up with the next out-of-nowhere school to rise from the ashes and win it all in the NIL/rev-share era. USA Today's Blake Toppmeyer and John Adams offered three potential options on the latest edition of SEC Football Unfiltered: the Kentucky Wildcats, UCLA Bruins, and Texas Tech Red Raiders.