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Indiana coach Curt Cignetti is college football's best constructor — on the field and off it. His teams win, his players flourish and his legacy grows.

Cignetti was born in Pittsburgh, PA on June 2, 1961. At the time, his father, Frank Cignetti Sr., was an assistant football coach at Leechburg High School in Pennsylvania. Cignetti Sr. became an assistant at Pittsburgh in 1966 and then at Princeton in 1969. He returned in 1970 as an assistant at West Virginia University, prompting a family move.

The GOAT college football coach now sits center stage for ESPN's College GameDay every week during the season, but analysis is far from the only thing Nick Saban provides college football. His legacy lives on in the men who learned at the feet of the "Nicktator.

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Cignetti turned a near-perennial doormat into a juggernaut literally overnight. If all goes to plan Monday and IU wins its first national title, his stunningly prescient comments will join the annals of sports figures whose bold statements have come true.