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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Can both Miami AND Indiana play the disrespect card?! πŸ‘€ | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.9 β€’ 1.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The National Championship is HERE! Greg McElroy and Matt Barrie are in Miami and discuss why people question Carson Beck (even after all that he has done), why Indiana is STILL getting severely disrespected because of big brand bias and who has the edge heading into Monday night's game. Plus, the guys give their X-factor for the game AND make a pick for who wins the National Championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:54.3

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy. We're so happy to have you here with us from South Florida. As you can see right behind me, Hard Rock Stadium, the site of the 2026 national championship game that will kick off about 48 hours from now. Very excited. The Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes. What a story for both these teams.

0:56.0

Indiana, trying to complete one of the great turnaround in the history of college football.

1:02.0

Long history of futility and mediocre play, putting it mildly, now on the verge of capping

1:10.2

a historically great 16 and no season with the national championship in Kurt Signetti's second year.

1:14.6

And on the other side, Mario Cristobal, a few years ago, returns home, was at Oregon, now heads back to lead the hurricanes.

1:22.6

And what's been a multi-year process to get to this point, finally had the roster to break through,

1:28.3

and they did when they were the last team in,

1:30.5

here they are, one of the last two standing,

1:33.0

trying to cap off their first national championship

1:36.4

since 2001.

1:38.7

We have a lot of fun things in store for you here

1:41.5

in South Florida over the next couple days,

1:43.5

but our coverage will kick off today with a terrific conversation with ESPN's Matt Berry. He does an amazing job on the Matt Berry show, which you can check out on whatever podcast platform you're on. You can also check him out on the ESPN College Football YouTube page. He hosts college football final on ESPN.

2:01.7

He wraps games all day on ESPN throughout the season.

2:05.6

And he, of course, calls Thursday night football as well.

2:08.2

So have a great conversation with Matt today.

2:10.2

Talking about the big picture storylines.

2:12.0

What does it mean for Miami?

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