Posted on 01/19/2026 11:32:53 PM PST by Paul R.
Watch full game highlights from the College Football Playoff National Championship as the Indiana Hoosiers defeated the Miami Hurricanes, 27-21. Fernando Mendoza threw for 186 YDS on 16-of-27 pass attempts with 1 rushing TD while RB Kaelon Black led the Hoosiers in rushing with 79 YDS on 17 carries.
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100%!
Indiana could have blown the game on that final play. They should have just taken the safety and run out the clock, they would have snapped it with two seconds left.
We are an Ohio State family- and i was rooting for Indiana all the way through!!! Love good football coaching and Cignetti is a GREAT football coach...
I kept telling myself last night, “relax- you have no attachment to this game”!!!
Miami’s antics in the 80s and ESPN’s coverage of those antics was the precursor to all the grandstanding and showboating we see in football today.
What’s funny is when Miami played Penn State in 1987, the Hurricanes were portrayed as the thugs, and Penn State as the saints.
Little did we know.
Penn State played football and conducted themselves the way they should have. Miami acted like thugs the whole week leading up to that game. The Giftopoulos interception to seal the game was sweet.
As for Sandusky and the administrators that hushed it up, they besmirched the football team and its players.
My $0.02, YMMV
Evidently the penalty for pass interference was suspended for both teams this game. And Herbstriet explained that grabbing, pushing and punching were perfectly legal for defensive backs because that’s just the way it is now. It would have been a completely different game if the refs didn’t totally suck all game long.
Coach Switzer's solution to that situation was to just snap the ball out the back of the end zone with no exchanges to nobody.
So there. Safety, now we'll kick...
Yeah, but if you kick the risk is Miami runs it back for a TD.
Just have the blockers situated so no one hits Mendoza as he goes out of the endzone.
Officiating crew must have been from the Macular Degeneration Conference. Pathetic and atrocious for not flagging blatant fouls and their holding non calls propped up Miami’s line and gave their QB as much time as he wanted to find receivers.
A crew can’t be that blind unless they have some bucks riding on the game.
I actually watched the post-game. Normally, I don’t do that unless it’s the Gators.
Did you catch the announcers saying Indiana is the first first-time champion since the Gators in 1996.
I did catch that. Fortunately UF has won two more since then!
So who will the next First-Time champion be?
My money is on Oregon.
But here are all of the Big Ten/SEC Teams who have never won or shared a National Title
Oregon
Northwestern
Purdue
Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Kentucky (although they claim the 1950 title)
Mississippi State
Missouri
South Carolina
(and yes Rutgers did share the 1869 title, so technically they have a Natty)
I based it off of this list:
https://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs
Indiana also joined the ranks of schools that have titles in both football and basketball.
Programs with Multiple Championships in Both:
University of Florida: 3 Football, 3 Men’s Basketball (unique feat).
Michigan: 11 Football, 1 Basketball (most combined titles with UCLA).
UCLA: 1 Football, 11 Basketball (most basketball titles).
Ohio State: 8 Football, 1 Basketball.
Michigan State: 4 Football, 2 Basketball.
Other Programs with at Least One Title in Both:
Maryland, Syracuse, California, Arkansas, Stanford, Indiana
Yeah Oregon is a good choice. Then maybe Wizconsin. Hope none of those SEC teams ever win one. I hate the SEC. Lol.
Very interesting. I think the list becomes even more exclusive if you add in Baseball championships.?
That would be Florida, Michigan and Ohio State.
Arkansas came close but dropped that foul ball.
I looked it up and Michigan claims 12 football titles but the NCAA only recognizes 9 and they’ve only won two in the modern era. Their titles are in 2023, 1997, 1948, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1918 and 1932. And there was that issue of cheating in ‘23 but whatever. LOL.
I know from previous arguments folks at Kentucky claim the 1950 football title, but that was just the Sagarin poll.
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