Indiana shocks the world and wins the national championship

Podcast of Champions - Big Ten Football Podcast

Ryan Abraham and David Woods

Sports News, News, Sports, Football

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back to recap Indiana -- INDIANA -- winning a national championship, beating Miami 27-21 on Monday night. The Killer Curt Cignetti put the finishing touches on the first 16-0 season in modern college football history, taking a 3-9 Hoosiers squad that was the loosingest program in the country to national champions in just two seasons. The fellas talk about everything they saw in the game, and also whether this level of play is sustainable for Indiana going forward. This is also the third-straight national championship for the Big Ten and the guys talk about the power shift in the sport during this NIL/transfer portal era. As always, they wrap up the podcast by answering listener email and live chat questions. For the video simulcasts of our POC please subscribe to your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Please follow, give the POC a five-star rating and post a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You can bet all of the Big Ten games over at MyBookie! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the heart of Big Ten Country, Los Angeles, California, Ryan Abraham and David Woods present the podcast of champions.
0:11.3	Welcome.
0:12.7	Everyone back to the podcast of champions.
0:15.7	I'm David Woods from Brunerport Online, the UCLA site on the 24-7 Sports Network.
0:20.4	And I'm Ryan Abraham from USC Football.com, the UCLA site on the 24-7 Sports Network. And I'm Ryan Abraham from USCFootball.com, the USC site on the 24-7 sports network.
0:28.3	And together, we make the podcast of champions talking all things.
0:36.0	Big 10 football. We've got a long off season ahead of us but in the
0:41.6	meantime the big 10 you know we just jumped on this big 10 bang what bang bus bang bus
0:49.2	bandwagon a couple of years. Since we've joined, David,
0:55.4	the Big Ten just keeps winning national championships.
1:00.4	Michigan, Ohio State.
1:02.0	And now your Indiana Hoosiers, 16-0, first time since Yale did it in like the 1800s
1:08.9	when they were playing non-university and things
1:12.8	like that. But we got to talk about all that. As a lifelong Hoosier, I'm absolutely delighted.
1:17.9	Yes. You and Mark Cuban and John Cougar Mellencamp or Cougar, I don't know what he's changed
1:23.7	at one point. Yeah, we're live on YouTube. Love it. We are live in person in the studio. If you're watching on YouTube, we appreciate that. I can put up, you can see us. Look at us. Hey, we haven't been in the same room at the same time. In years. For quite a while. It's been. It's been a, we haven't, in 2026, we have not been in the same room together. Damn. I know. Well, we watched the game. Yeah, that's true. But not did a podcast together. Email us, Big Tencast at gmail.com. You can call us, text us 424-532-0678. Tweet us at B-1G podcast. Apple, Spotify, leave us a rating. Five-star rating. Reviews are awesome. No Spotify comments. Do we have any reviews, David? Not a goddamn one. Okay, I got two Trader Joe's gift cards left. Nobody wants them. Do you want them? All I'm seeing, all I'm seeing is that nobody wants them.
2:22.1	Review us. Five stars. All it takes is a five star review. Look, do I need to reiterate the rules?
2:54.6	It's very simple. You can write the most vile, disgusting things to us. And as long as they are not picked up by the Apple filter, we will read them on air as long as you make it a five star rating. We don't care. Okay. Do you guys don't like Trader Joe's? $34.34. We get a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah. We got to go back to Jockey maybe, get some, you know, that was the, we got to get some underwear to give people. That's the incentive people had. Jockey gift cards. Yeah. So we got a tight window today, so it's going to be under an hour because I have a live
2:52.6	show for USC coming up afterwards.
2:55.2	But we've got to recap the game.
2:57.4	Our picks were both bad.
2:58.8	We both took the Killer Signetti minus eight and a half, and they end up winning just
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