Riley Nowakowski has plenty of faith his Indiana team has what it takes to be national champions, but the former Wisconsin player conceded it’s “insane” to see the Hoosiers in this position considering their past reputation.
Indiana will face Miami on Monday in the College Football Playoff National Championship at Hard Rock Stadium with a chance to claim an improbable first national title, an unprecedented turnaround for one of the Big Ten’s historical bottom-feeders thanks to the leadership of head coach Curt Cignetti.
Indiana — hopes to tap into its massive alumni base to overturn the Hurricanes’ homefield advantage — has largely been a basketball school throughout its history, but the remarkable two-year run under Cignetti has the fanbase energized…