Curt Cignetti celebrated by Google, Chipotle after winning national championship
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Curt Cignetti said it, and then it happened at the highest level and on the biggest stage.
“I win. Google me,” Cignetti once said confidently at his first Signing Day news conference.
That quote has followed him since and, well, now look at Cignetti, who on Monday night led Indiana to its first national championship, capping a magical 16-0 season. All these Hoosiers did was win, and Cignetti was the guy at the helm, backing up that famous quote for all of college football to see. In 2 seasons, Cignetti has led IU to 2 College Football Playoff appearances, and now the Hoosiers have arrived at the mountaintop of the sport, led by the guy who told everyone that he wins.
Now, a few days later, after he raised college football’s biggest trophy, here come some more proper rewards for Cignetti, starting with Google itself. Google celebrated the coach who told everyone to Google him by putting out this post, which shows a fictional person googling Cignetti’s name and the end result of the search proclaiming, “Yup, he won.”
If you do a search of Cignetti now on Google, that’s what you find, because “Curt Cignetti spoke it into existence.”
Google was joined by Chipotle in celebrating the national championship head coach, who orders from the restaurant every day for lunch.
Chipotle has now added a signature Cignetti “I Win” bowl to its menu, which features chicken, brown rice, black beans and a side of guacamole. Cignetti orders that combination every day, so why wouldn’t Chipotle take the opportunity to give Cignetti’s special order a very special name?
The popular restaurant chain did exactly that to the most popular college football head coach.
So, now you can google Cignetti or just order his dish from Chipotle to remind yourself of what the head coach has done at Indiana in just 2 seasons, and what he did during the 2025 season especially.
Now, of course, Cignetti needs to keep winning in future years in order to keep Google and Chipotle coming back for more.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
