MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — To deliver a full-term football miracle, the impossible Indiana saga needed one more dramatic flourish, one more moment of divine inspiration, from its two primary authors. The greatest college football story ever told needed coach Curt Cignetti to make his bravest call and it needed quarterback Fernando Mendoza to make his bravest play.
With nine minutes and 27 seconds left in the College Football Playoff national championship game against Miami, facing a fourth-and-4 at the 12-yard line and holding a precarious 17–14 lead, Cignetti signaled timeout.
