Curt Cignetti
Sign in to saveCurt Cignetti is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Indiana University Bloomington. He previously served as the head coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 2011 to 2016, Elon University from 2017 to 2018, and James Madison University from 2019 to 2023.
Curt Cignetti is an American college football coach who currently leads the football program at Indiana University Bloomington, having previously coached at three other universities over the past decade. His hiring at Indiana matters because it represents the university's attempt to revitalize its football program by bringing in a coach with experience building successful teams at other schools.
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- 1961-06-02
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- 2 June 1961
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- United States
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- West Virginia University
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- American football
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- West Virginia Mountaineers
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- quarterback
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Curt Cignetti (/kɜːrt sɪɡˈnɛti/ born June 2, 1961) is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Indiana University Bloomington. He previously served as the head coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 2011 to 2016, Elon University from 2017 to 2018, and James Madison University from 2019 to 2023.
Cignetti is a five-time conference coach of the year and a two-time national coach of the year. He is the only college football coach to have started 10–0 with two different teams in consecutive seasons, achieving this unique distinction with James Madison University in 2023 and Indiana University in 2024. During his first season at Indiana, he was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year after leading the Hoosiers to a program-record 11 wins and their first-ever College Football Playoff berth.