Indiana vs. Miami - National Championship PICKS and BETS
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Our College Football experts have ALL their College Football National Championship Picks! Join Sia Nejad, Tom Casale, Emory Hunt, and Mike McClure as they give their favorite picks for Indiana vs Miami in the National Championship Game!
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| 0:00.0 | Time to talk favorite sides, totals, and props for the national championship, Miami and Indiana. |
| 0:09.8 | We do it with Mike Emery and Tom. |
| 0:12.1 | And Emery, I'll start with you on your favorite side. |
| 0:14.6 | Now, at BetMGM here, we've got an eight and a half point spread of 47.5 point total. |
| 0:19.7 | Hit us with your spread here, though. I'm taking Miami plus |
| 0:23.0 | to eight and a half. This number was seven and a half earlier in the week, and I just still find that |
| 0:28.2 | and this number to be mind-blowing because Miami fundamentally and philosophically and from a |
| 0:35.5 | mentality standpoint is built a lot like Indiana. They don't quit. |
| 0:39.4 | They will fight you from start to finish. Now, I love how Carson Beck has played in terms of |
| 0:44.5 | managing the game here in the postseason. He still is missing deep balls. He still is |
| 0:49.0 | missing some open opportunities for big plays and points. But I like that he's showing a little bit of that short memory that you need to have success in when you're in the midst of a playoff run. And Miami's defensive line and offensive line, they have an advantage in my opinion in this game against Indiana. I know Oregon got blown out and I know Indiana is great, but I felt like Oregon's offense did not want to be there once he got punched in the mouth and tasted their own blood. |
| 1:13.4 | That was a wrap for them. |
| 1:14.7 | They won't get that for Miami. |
| 1:15.9 | Miami may get punched in them out, but they're like, oh, yeah, good. |
| 1:17.7 | Now we've got a fight now, and they'll go back and forth. |
| 1:19.9 | So I just see this from being a closer game. |
| 1:21.9 | Give me the hurricanes plus eight and a half. |
| 1:24.5 | Mike, I liked that entire take. What I will say is when you looked at the look ahead |
| 1:29.4 | line before Indiana dismantled Oregon, I believe it was in that four and a half, five and a half range, |
| 1:34.1 | and then it grew to six and a half, and then seven and a half and then eight and a half. And at a certain |
| 1:37.6 | point, you got to push back and look at the other team. I also like what Emery said about |
| 1:42.3 | Carson Beck. I think Carson Beck has looked way better than anybody anticipated him looking in the college football playoffs specifically. |
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