The Indiana Hoosiers just delivered one of the most improbable championship runs college sports has ever seen. And while the Hoosiers were still celebrating their national title on Monday night, one of Indiana’s biggest women’s basketball icons had a simple request. Caitlin Clark wants the “movie”.

As the Hoosiers capped off a perfect season by defeating Miami 27–21 to claim the national championship, the Indiana Fever star and former Iowa legend took to X and reacted to the moment that stunned the college football world.

“What a story @IndianaFootball give coach cig his movie now!! Congrats!!!!!!!” Clark posted.

Throughout this season, Clark has been closely following their historic run. Just weeks earlier, she attended the Big Ten Championship, cheering the Hoosiers as they stunned Ohio State to end a decades-long title drought.

So if you saw their latest game, the coach definitely deserves it. Indiana entered the season as an underdog that very few believed in. During the preseason odds were sitting at 100–1 to win the College Football Playoff. Yet even with the cards stacked against them behind head coach Curt Cignetti, the Hoosiers went unbeaten, knocked off Big Ten heavyweights, and finished the job on the sport’s biggest stage.

For Caitlin Clark, who herself understands firsthand what it means to change how a program is viewed nationally, the parallel was impossible to miss. During her time in college, she helped turn the Iowa Hawkeyes matchups into must-watch games and pushed women’s basketball into the national spotlight, as it had never before.

And now, that same theme defined Indiana football’s rise.

Coach Cignetti took over a program that was struggling for relevance for decades, and, within two seasons, he turned it into the sport’s ultimate underdog story. The Hoosiers didn’t just win games. They erased doubts, silenced narratives against them, and reshaped expectations week after week, game after game. So by the time the confetti fell, Indiana had completed a flawless run 16-0 that now sits among the greatest turnarounds in college sports history.

Fernando Mendoza Delivers the Final Chapter of Indiana’s Movie-Worthy Run

If Caitlin Clark was calling for a movie, Mendoza made sure the story was worthwhile.

The Indiana quarterback came in clutch when it mattered most, guiding the Hoosiers to a win. The Heisman Trophy winner didn’t light up the stat sheet, finishing with 186 passing yards, but his impact went far beyond numbers. With the game hanging in the balance late in the fourth quarter, Mendoza took matters into his own hands.

Facing a critical fourth-and-4, he tucked the ball and powered through for a gutsy 12-yard touchdown run that gave Indiana a two-score cushion and ultimately sealed the championship.

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“I had to go airborne,” Mendoza said in a post-game interview. “I would die for my team.”

A Miami native who grew up less than a mile from the Hurricanes’ campus, Mendoza was playing the national title game in his hometown, against the program he once dreamed of representing. Instead, he became the face of Indiana’s greatest season, which no one saw coming.