INDIANAPOLIS — When it was over, the upending of the sport complete, Curt Cignetti walked matter-of-factly to midfield, not acknowledging the chaos he had wrought. He shook hands with Ohio State coach Ryan Day, whose 16-game winning streak Cignetti had just ended. The greatest disruptor in college football history betrayed no emotion.
It was there on the inside, no question. You don’t walk the 64-year-old Cignetti’s career path without an acute appreciation of this gobsmacking moment. But for a man who built a program from the ashes on the expectation of winning everything, this was no time for running around like Jim Valvano in Albuquerque in 1983.
