Indiana Football are National Champs | Is Miami EVER Going to be Back?!
Menace2Sports with Zach Smith
Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
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🏆 INDIANA FOOTBALL ARE NATIONAL CHAMPS | Is Miami Football EVER Going to Be Back?!
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
The unthinkable just happened — Indiana Football are NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.
Curt Cignetti and the Hoosiers completed one of the greatest runs in college football history… while Miami Football once again came up short on the biggest stage.
Now the entire sport is asking:
👉 Is Miami Football EVER going to be back?
👉 What does Indiana's rise say about the new power structure in college football?
Today, we break down how Indiana did the impossible — and why Miami's long-awaited return to dominance still hasn't arrived.
🔥 LIVE Show Topics:
Indiana Football crowned NATIONAL CHAMPIONS — how they pulled it off
Curt Cignetti's masterclass in roster building & culture
Fernando Mendoza's championship performance
Why Indiana succeeded where blue bloods failed
Miami's collapse: what went wrong on the biggest stage
Mario Cristobal's future and the pressure mounting in Coral Gables
Is Miami structurally broken… or just unlucky?
NIL, transfer portal, and why Indiana mastered the modern era
What this championship means for the future of college football
LIVE chat reactions, fan takes & championship fallout discussion
This championship may mark a permanent shift in college football power — and Indiana just kicked the door down.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Tuesday, January 20th, the first day of the college football offseason. |
| 0:09.1 | We have a national championship. |
| 0:10.7 | My man said, Google me. |
| 0:12.3 | I win. |
| 0:13.5 | And motherfucker went and won it all. |
| 0:15.3 | The very first, very first 16 and 0 football team in the history of college football. |
| 0:22.1 | Some told us this may never happen. |
| 0:24.8 | Steve Sarkeesian, most importantly, in a press conference said, |
| 0:28.9 | we have to just come to grips with the fact that we'll probably never see |
| 0:32.5 | an undefeated national champion again. |
| 0:34.0 | He said that going into this year. |
| 0:36.1 | And then sure is shit, right after he said it, Indiana, cursing that he said, going into this year and then sure his shit right after he said it |
| 0:39.3 | indiana cursing that he said hold my beer who's your beer who's your beer who's your beer who's your |
| 0:43.4 | beer who who's yours oh my god i was watching them like they were my fucking team last night |
| 0:51.5 | and that game was it was about it was everything i thought would be. It was everything we said it would be yesterday. A very good game. Two teams that played very well. Great defense. Got the run game going both of them. Mark Fletcher is a dog. Through the ball, okay. But ultimately, Carson Beck sucks and Mendoza's the Heisman. |
| 1:13.0 | It's that simple, simple, right? |
| 1:16.0 | Fernando Mendoza outplayed Carson Beck by a lot. |
| 1:18.7 | That was the difference in a six point game. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.4 | I mean, and that kind of overcame the trench play disparity, right? |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.3 | Because like Miami's D line is fucking outrageous, dude. |
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