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The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News, Football

4.3 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Colin Cowherd reacts to all of the quarterfinal matchups from the College Football Playoff. He starts with Indiana’s dominant win over Alabama and why the rise of the Hoosiers football team is great news for college football fans everywhere. He also discusses Miami’s shocking upset of Ohio State and why people should be taking notice of the Hurricanes as serious national championship contenders.

Colin shares his Blazing 5 picks for week 18 of the NFL season:

Seahawks at 49ers

Browns at Bengals

Lions at Bears

Cardinals at Rams

Ravens at Steelers

Plus, former Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III joins the show to tell Colin why Ohio State came up short of winning back-to-back championships.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.0	Thanks for listening to The Heard podcast.
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0:13.5	Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day in the IHeart radio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR.
0:23.1	Thanks for listening to The Heard podcast.
0:25.2	Here we go.
0:26.2	It is a Friday.
0:29.0	Wow.
0:30.2	Wow.
0:30.9	What a day yesterday in college football.
0:34.7	Major, major.
0:37.2	NFL games this weekend, Haw niners Steelers ravens one hour from now our final
0:45.5	regular season blazing fives i like it last week dogs this week favorites wherever you favorites, wherever you may be, however you may be listening.
0:57.6	Happy New Year to those tuning in, listening, whatever platform it is. Well, I have nothing against
1:04.2	Alabama football. But that was a glorious beat down yesterday. Was it not in the Rose Bowl?
1:10.9	Indiana sent a sport-wide message.
1:16.8	The SEC dominance is over.
1:19.9	The Hoosiers pushed around the Crimson Tide for three and a half hours.
1:24.5	The new reality is, Bama can't run the football and Georgia can't stop any good offense.
1:29.3	It's Miami, Indiana, at least for this year, who are the new bullies on the block.
1:36.3	And the harsh truth to all you traditionalists, of which I am not one, you are and you were wrong, dead wrong, conference realignment, NIL, transfer portal.
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