Indiana’s Cignetti faces his toughest rebuild yet with 17 new starters2 sources

Indiana owns a national championship, but the Hoosiers are heading into the offseason with a roster that looks almost nothing like the one that won it. Only 13 players who followed Cignetti to Bloomington remain, and 17 new faces are now set to join the program – a shift that places an immediate and significant burden on the coaching staff. Before the season begins, Cignetti and his staff must take an unfamiliar group and forge it into a championship-caliber unit, balancing continuity from the 13 returnees against the complexity of integrating 17 newcomers. The timeline is tight, and the stakes are high.

Clemson enters 2026 season unranked in AP Poll for first time since 20112 sources

Clemson enters the upcoming college football season without a vote in the Associated Press preseason Top-25 Poll – the first time since the 2011 campaign that the program has received zero votes in the preseason ranking. The 2011 season preceded a period of sustained national prominence for the Tigers. Now, fifteen years later, Clemson begins the new year excluded from the national conversation, with no votes cast in its favor in the preseason poll. Saturday Down South reported the development under the headline “Clemson unranked in preseason poll for first time since 2011.”

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