ESPN College GameDay announces Week 9 site in Bloomington for Indiana-Washington

ESPN’s College GameDay will head to Bloomington for the first time ever when Indiana hosts Washington in Week 9 of the regular season.

Lee Corso, who returned to the GameDay set this past weekend, will head home for the first time. Corso coached Indiana from 1973-82, going 41-68-2 as head coach.

Corso’s tenure included a No. 19 final AP Poll ranking in 1979 and a Holiday Bowl victory.

Indiana is in the midst of a breakout season under first year coach Curt Cignetti. Coming over from James Madison, Cignetti infused the Hoosiers with some kind of magic.

Indiana is currently 7-0 following a 56-7 win over Nebraska Saturday. Even ahead of Indiana’s win, Cignetti explained why he had so much confident in his program, despite it being his first year.

“I had a lot of confidence coming in because I’d had so much success as a head coach, I guess,” Curt Cignetti told Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman on Andy & Ari On3. “And I felt like I had done this kind of turnaround two or three times already. So it’s just doing it on a bigger stage. And I thought it was important that I set an expectation level when I first got here. I realize I went out on a limb on a few comments, but I just detected, the first day I was here, kind of a feeling of hopelessness that it can’t get done here.

“Once I was here – and I felt like I had to get people excited right off the bat. Now those are just words, but portray that confidence and expectation level that this is what we’re going to do.”

It’s safe to say, Indiana is living up to Cignetti’s expectations. The Hoosiers were 6-0 for the first time since 1967, now 7-0. To put that in perspective, Bob Knight was still four years away from taking over the basketball program, and The Beatles had just released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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