Fans troll Indiana coach Curt Cignetti for pre-game comments before humiliating playoff loss to Notre Dame

College football fans didn’t hold back from trolling Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti after his brash and confident pre-game comments backfired Friday night.

Ahead of the Hoosiers’ showdown with Notre Dame in the opening round of the College Football Playoffs, Cignetti appeared on ESPN’s College GameDay with the utmost confidence.

While speaking to Nick Saban, Pat McAfee and the rest of the panel, Cignetti boldly claimed that his program performed against the best teams in the country.

“We don’t just beat top 25 teams, we beat them all,” he told the panel in South Bend, Indiana. He also recorded a win over Coastal Carolina while ranked 22nd nationally.

Those words backfired after the Fighting Irish dominated them and secured a 27-17 victory to advance to the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day.

After the embarrassing display, fans flooded X with ridiculous comments, making Cignetti’s name a trending topic on the platform.

After a questionable play in the third quarter, one fan wrote: “Another stupid play by Curt Cignetti. He calls a timeout when the team would have come to a standstill in 4th place. This man can’t do anything right today.’

Another user posted a video of Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson crying on the Night Cap podcast and wrote, “Curt Cignetti attack on ranked teams.”

“Curt Cignetti talked a LOT [s***] just to be down seventeen points with ten minutes to play,” a third wrote in the fourth quarter.

‘It’s one thing that the players do that, but I look at Cignetti sideways. How can you talk so much, but coach so conservatively? Punting in the 4th Q while down 17,” echoed a fourth.

“Curt Cignetti = garbage time dealer,” wrote a fifth.

A sixth user posted the iconic clip of stand-up comedian Kat Williams and said: ‘You shouldn’t have talked about s***.’

After his comments on Friday, Saban told Cignetti, “One thing you didn’t learn from me is to talk about all those things you talk.”

Cignetti, who played quarterback for West Virginia when Saban was defensive backs coach for the Mountaineers, was part of Saban’s first coaching staff at Alabama in 2007. Cignetti worked under Saban as a wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator from 2007-2010.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish steamrolled their way to a 27-17 win over the Hoosiers

After being hired for the head coaching job at Indiana, Cignetti immediately made his verbal antics known before leading his team to one of their best seasons in program history.

At a pep rally last year, Cignetti took the microphone and said, “Purdue sucks… So do Michigan and Ohio State.”

Both teams entered Friday’s game with 11-1 records.

The fifth-ranked Fighting Irish held the No Hoosiers to three points through the first three quarters before Indiana’s desperation efforts gave them 14 points in the fourth.

Nevertheless, their efforts were in vain as Notre Dame rolled past them to secure a meeting with the Georgia Bulldogs in the next round.