The Indiana Hoosiers are National Champs! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Indiana held off Miami 27-21 to win the schools FIRST ever National Championship and McElroy is here to give you his instant reaction. A team that finished 16-0, that played unselfish and rode Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza to a title is a story that the college football world did not see coming. The question now is where does this Indiana team rank among some of the greats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	They do snap it.
0:33.1	He takes off running on a design.
0:34.0	Quarterback drop.
0:35.7	He has the first down.
0:42.3	He spins into the end zone. What a play by Mendoza and what a call. And the celebration begins.
0:44.3	Kurt Signetti has led the Indiana Hoosiers to the national championship.
0:53.3	Well, a historic season is capped off with the Indiana Hoosiers winning their first national championship.
1:02.0	They've been playing college football in Bloomington for nearly 150 years, and they finally bring home a Natty.
1:09.0	And what a thriller it was.
1:11.8	This game went about exactly like we expected it to go.
1:16.1	We thought it was going to be 2720 Indiana.
1:19.0	We missed, I'm sorry.
1:20.8	2721, the Hoosiers get it done.
1:23.6	It was the most Indiana performance you could possibly imagine.
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