Indiana’s climb to No. 1 has spotlighted a familiar Clemson connection, with a former Tiger wideout delivering a long-awaited resurgence in 2025.

No. 1 Indiana is headed to its first Rose Bowl in 58 years to face Oklahoma or Alabama. The Hoosiers made a storybook transformation into a college football powerhouse over the past two years, and now they’re headed to the most fabled arena in the sport.

Heisman Trophy candidate Fernando Mendoza didn't hold back his excitement with Indiana knocking off Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game.

Indiana won the Big Ten title game and earned a bid to the Rose Bowl, where it will face the winner of the Oklahoma versus Alabama CFP quarterfinal.

Indiana hadn’t beaten Ohio State since 1988 — a span of 32 straight games without a win (one game was a tie) — and then did so with everything on the line: an unbeaten regular season, the conference championship, the No. 1 seed in the CFP, and the Heisman Trophy.

For the first time in program history, Indiana is the Big Ten champion and No. 1 team in college football following Saturday night's 13-10 triumph over Ohio State. The win catapults the Hoosiers to the top spot in Sunday's updated AP Top 25 rankings.

Indiana grabbed the top spot in both national top 25 polls right before the CFP committee revealed the team was headed to the Rose Bowl as the field's top overall seed. It's only the team's second trip to Pasadena for a postseason matchup in program history and first since 1967, the same year it last won the conference.

Ohio State Buckeyes QB Julian Sayin was in the running for the Heisman Trophy, but the loss to the Indiana Hoosiers in the Big Ten title might have ended that.