Six TDs in this game. All on the ground. (In spirit, at least.) Miami just won't go away.

Cig called WHAT on fourth-and-4?!?!

Charlie Becker. Mr. Reliable. www.insidezonemf.com/p/cfb-foreca...

End of 3. QB play: Dead even.

Isaiah Jones is the rare Indiana upperclassman who has been a Hoosier since Day 1. The redshirt junior linebacker stuck it out through a 7-17 record and a coaching change in his first two years. For him to score a TD in the national title game is something special.

Indiana with the perhaps the smoothest punt block and TD you'll ever see. Man did the Hoosiers make that look routine. Mikail Kamara on the block, Isaiah Jones on the TD. Indiana 17, Miami 7

Indiana with the perhaps the smoothest punt block and TD you'll ever see. Man did the Hoosiers make that look routine. Mikail Kamara on the block, Isaiah Jones on the TD. Indiana 17, Miami 7

Riley Nowakowski, a one-time Wisconsin walk-on, shows off those state roots with a 1-yard plunge into the end zone on third-and-goal.

Indiana is so damn good at making you pay for every little mistake. Rueben Bain jumps offsides on a third-and-13 incompletion. Given new life, the Hoosiers score three plays later on a Charlie Becker TD.

Kaelon Black picks up 20 on the next carry. You're welcome, Hoosiers fans.

Of Indiana's 13 carries, 11 have gone for 3 or fewer yards, including two for negative yards

Nobody makes Fernando bleed his own blood. Nobody.

Last college football game of the season. 61 degrees. Let’s make it a good one.

Stephen A and Michael Irvin do a SiriusXM hit together

The one and only Ed Reed

We’re used to “Fire Coach X” banners flying over Miami games. Now we’ve got Front Office Sports banners flying over instead.

Incoming thread of national title game content from beautiful Miami 🧵

Watching the Bears at a Miami bar that is packed with Indiana fans from Chicago. Think this group is livng a blessed football life right now?

“If you can just get me middle of the road resources in the Big Ten, I can win.” Inside the coaching search that ended up flipping the sport on its head. How the Hoosiers landed Curt Cignetti ⬇️⬇️ www.insidezonemf.com/p/inside-the...

Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman will join ESPN’s “College GameDay” as a guest analyst for Monday’s national championship game between Miami and Indiana.

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NIU has finalized its nonconference schedule with a trip to Georgia State (Sept. 26). The nonconference sked of the Huskies, who begin Mountain West Conference play next season, is a doozy: Sept. 5 at Iowa Sept. 12 Illinois State Sept. 19 at Arizona Sept. 26 at Georgia State

UNLV will host Memphis to open next season (Aug. 29, 2026). The Rebels will return the trip in 2029 (Sept. 15). Fun Week Zero game right off the Strip.

NCAA president Charlie Baker on news of today's college basketball gambling indictment:

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Dante Moore is staying at Oregon for another season. Dylan Raiola will now likely pull a Dante Moore and sit a year at Oregon after starting elsewhere. Wrote this Friday night. Huge implications for the 2026 national title race and draft. www.insidezonemf.com/p/fortuna-fi...

2026 College Football Hall of Fame class:

Marcus Freeman on the end of Notre Dame-USC:

Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman: "I used some of the interest in the NFL to personally gain wisdom from maybe some of the GMs and front office executives you get a chance to talk to about your players but also about what they view as a successful coach."

Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman on the CFP snub: "It's our job as we moved forward to make sure we leave no doubt."

JMU’s game at Virginia Tech (Sept. 26) has been canceled due to the ACC’s nine-game conference schedule. JMU will now play at San Diego State on Sept. 19.

New videoboard figures from Illinois: 🔶 17,300+ sq. feet 🔶 16 LED displays combining for 26,750+ sq. feet and 30 million pixels 🔶 69 ft high x 250 ft wide 🔶 10-millimeter pixel spacing The Illini will leap Auburn (10,690 sq. ft.) for the largest display in college football

Sources: Former Minnesota All-American safety Koi Perich has committed to Oregon.

Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti: "Pat Coogan's a winner. We got a lot of guys like Pat Coogan." Cig says PC's always reading/writing stuff down on the team plane, etc. As for him recovering another fumble: "We just gotta teach him now once he recovers it to roll over properly."

Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti is asked about the narrative of Indiana being a Cinderella story. Cig: "Define Cinderella story in the context of Indiana. I'm not quite sure what you mean." (Definition given.) Cig: "I think that's a fact."

Notre Dame lands 5-star Ohio State transfer WR Quincy Porter. Expect the Irish to land another big transfer shortly.

STATEMENT from Notre Dame athletics on the battery accusations against Marcus Freeman (as reported by the South Bend Tribune):

Bad, worse, worst 🐻

Chicago Bears DL Grady Jarrett received the Brian Dawkins Lifetime Achievement Award today from Clemson. Dabo Swinney gives the honor each year to an alum who “consistently demonstrated the qualities of leadership, community service and others that are consistent with excellence.”

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Even Indiana can't believe it beat Oregon by 34 points

Need @homefield.bsky.social to bring back that Corso-era polo

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Indiana scored 59 vs. Oregon to end its own 2024-25 basketball season. The Hoosiers scored 56 vs. Oregon to end the Ducks' 2025-26 football season.

D'Angelo Ponds with back-to-back bowl Defensive MVP honors

Same, Coach

Christopher Columbus High School O-line, circa 1988: Fernando Mendoza Sr. (70) ... Mario Cristobal (76)