PMS 2.0 1490 - The Indiana Hoosiers Win the National Championship, Dan Orlovsky, Bruce Arians, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 149 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys recap last night’s National Championship game which saw the Indiana Hoosiers complete a perfect season, going 16-0 and winning their first National Title in a thrilling victory over Miami. They discuss how Curt Cignetti has turned this around in what is perhaps the most remarkable coaching job in the history of sports. They also cover everything that happened in the NFL, as well as some new Head Coaching slots getting filled, and who might be next. Two incredible guests join the show including 12 year NFL veteran at QB and ESPN NFL analyst/QB guru, Dan Orlovsky, and 3x Super Bowl Champion and former Head Coach of the Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Bucs, Bruce Arians. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humbley, the Thunderdown.
0:06.1	On this, the Indiana Hoosiers are national champs Tuesday, January 20, 2006.
0:10.7	This program begins.
0:13.4	Football!
0:14.4	It is the greatest, and last night down in Miami, we crowned a new national champion,
0:19.1	and the winner of the big college game for football was the Indiana Hoosia.
0:24.0	Wow.
0:24.4	My God.
0:25.4	What a night is Coach Signetti, Fernando Mendoza, and the Hoosier faithful.
0:30.6	Find, you know, success in the most hopeless place.
0:34.6	The losing his program in the history of ball in just a two-year stint has now
0:40.2	become the best team in the world. And that man, Yenzer, Mountaineer, Kurt Signetti, after giving
0:46.0	a thanks to his dad, Frank. I hope you're up by watching, Pison. We fucking did it. Gets the Gatorade
0:52.3	bath from Charlie Becker and the boys
0:54.2	and celebrates a national championship where this might not be the last.
0:59.2	Signetti felt ready for the moment.
1:01.2	A couple massive timeouts he made last night.
1:03.6	They were going to send a field goal unit out.
1:05.3	Instead, they send Fernando back out on fourth down.
1:07.6	What's Fernando do?
1:09.0	And then the dive that is going to be immortalized forever
1:12.1	down there in Indiana full extension full bruise I believe he was bleeding and potentially even got
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