Indiana Has Never Had a Football Team Quite Like This One

Indiana football is 9-0 for the first time in program history, emphatically, a 47-10 win at Michigan State welcoming the return of starting quarterback Kurtis Rourke and pushing the Hoosiers closer to College Football Playoff lock status.

Rourke missed last week’s win over Washington with a right (throwing) thumb injury that he suffered a week earlier in a rout of Nebraska. He started slow against the Spartans but didn’t take long to carve them up with the poise and accuracy that should have him in the Heisman Trophy race — and certainly has first-year coach Curt Cignetti in national coach of the year conversations. Rourke finished 19 of 29 for

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