Indiana vs Miami: Our CFP National Championship Preview & Predictions | College Football
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
It's the most improbable CFP National Championship game of our lifetime. Can Indiana become one of the greatest sports stories of our lifetime, or will Mario Cristobal win it all at home? In this episode, we dive deep into the 2026 CFP National Championship between the #1 Indiana Hoosiers and the #10 Miami Hurricanes. From the record-breaking ticket prices and weird factoids to seven big picture questions and the most important keys that will decide the game, this is your officially national championship primer episode.
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
11:03 - 7 Big Questions
38:02 - The Case for the Miami Hurricanes
54:43 - The Case for the Indiana Hoosiers
1:05:05 - Our official predictions
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:08.1 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:09.1 | Come after me. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a man. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm 40. |
| 0:12.6 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:15.1 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:16.7 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:17.6 | It's that woo. |
| 0:19.2 | And now, down and tie. Dan Rubinstein, welcome back to the show, |
| 0:25.5 | my good friend. It occurred to me just as I hit the record button that you and I never officially |
| 0:32.3 | agreed to what we were going to do this episode. I said TCU season debrief, and you were like, what are you even talking about? And I was like, well, think about it. And you said, no, no, absolutely not. So where did we land? I hope you came prepared to talk about the CFP National Championship game between Miami and Indiana, because that's what I did. It is, it is. We've previewed national championship games each year we've done this show. |
| 0:56.5 | We've done it in different ways. |
| 0:58.1 | I think we're going to be more direct and hopefully as thorough as our most thorough shows that we've done in previewing these |
| 1:03.7 | monumental games. |
| 1:05.9 | This is the first time, I believe, in the history of the solid verbal that we're previewing either |
| 1:12.4 | one of these teams in this situation. Yes? We have not previewed Miami in a national |
| 1:18.0 | championship game. We've not previewed Indiana in a national championship game situation. |
| 1:21.7 | Not even close. Not even close. We've not previewed either of these head coaches in a national |
| 1:26.5 | championship situation as head coaches. |
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