Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Colin discusses Indiana winning the College Football National Championship in one of the more remarkable stories in sports going from losingest program in college football to the number 1 team in the country
He looks at the Bills after firing head coach Sean McDermott and why the move makes sense despite making the playoffs in 7 straight seasons
Plus, Fox Sports College Football Analyst Joel Klatt joins the show to tell Colin why Curt Cignetti orchestrated the most impressive coaching performance in the history of sports winning the National Championship at Indiana.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Heard podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern, 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.8 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeart radio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. |
| 0:23.7 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:32.1 | Here we go on a Tuesday with all sorts of activity in the coaching industry in the national football league. |
| 0:43.9 | We are live or in Chicago. It's the herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening, |
| 0:50.1 | whatever the platform, thanks for making us part of your day. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, I was like many of you, most of you watching a sports talk show. |
| 1:02.5 | I sat and watched Indiana, Miami last night. Not only the first 16 and 0 team, |
| 1:09.8 | but for the first time I ever remember watching a national |
| 1:13.6 | championship in college football, it felt like 50% NFL, and I am here for it. College football |
| 1:22.9 | rosters are getting older, wiser. Miami's D-line and O-line. Those are NFL bodies. |
| 1:29.3 | Miami's got a defensive lineman about to turn 25. |
| 1:32.3 | Indiana, by design, is a roster filled with mature 22 and 23-year-olds, |
| 1:38.3 | both quarterbacks, three-year starters. |
| 1:41.3 | That's why Indiana plays such mistake-free football. |
| 1:45.1 | It's an older, smarter roster. |
| 1:48.5 | What last night allows is more sophisticated defenses. |
| 1:53.2 | Miami's doing part zone, part man-to-man on the same play. |
| 1:58.8 | You've got Indiana never fumbles, no errant snaps. |
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