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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian is obsessed with who everyone else is playing. He recently complained about the Texas Tech Red Raiders’ Big 12 schedule and claimed he thinks Longhorns backups could go undefeated with it. Sark also defended James Franklin’s firing from the Penn State Nittany Lions midway through the 2025 season. Now, he’s giving a backhanded compliment to Curt Cignetti, the head coach of the defending national champion Indiana Hoosiers.
Sarkisian went on the “Always College Football” podcast and told Greg McElroy that teams shouldn’t be adopting everything about “the Indiana Way,” except scheduling easier non-conference opponents. The Hoosiers defeated the Old Dominion Monarchs, Kennesaw State Owls, and Indiana State Sycamores in their first three non-conference wins of the 2025 schedule…