Well, here we are. There are few people less qualified to do rundown of tonight’s game but I’ve been winging these things for quite some time now so whatever. But first, a few wee news items and notes.
Fallout:
-Of course the first is that the Pegula’s dropped the bomb on Bills coach McDermott to some surprise. It’s always risky to move on from a leader of men that made such a difference to Buffalo’s fortunes. Since he became coach the team has scored the most points and allowed the least-their point differential is 900+ and no other team is at 600. But he didn’t beat the teams he had to beat at the expected times so he’s gone.
-GM Beane is no longer, but only because he was kicked upstairs to President of Football Operations. That’s what not being able to find a wide receiver gets you.
-The Fins pivoted to the defensive side of the ball after shedding themselves of Daniel. (funny that teams do this all the time). Jeff Hafley, DC for the Packers for two years and a losing coach (22-26) at Boston College, is the hire. That makes eight straight coaches brought on board by Miami that have no NFL head coaching whatsoever. I guess the other side of this is that they don’t go down the Retread Road.
-Zach Charbonnett threw his ACL out of whack so he’s not available anymore for the Seahawks.
To The Game!
Miami/Indiana:
-Peeking in at the La Batard show there would appear to be excitement in the air all over town. Btw, it’s pretty much the worst platform to go to for actual analysis. They do love fighting and talking over each other on that show.
-It being the feel-good story it is, 78% of the betting money is on the Hoosiers.
-Sporty types down in Florida have their own happy tale to tell and that is Cristobal resurrecting the program from the dregs of several lousy seasons. There’s also the “Immigrant from Cuba does good” angle although he was born here. Kudos to him though for giving his hard-working parents credit whenever he can.
-Has there ever been a 2-loss National Champion? My guess is no.
-As stated before it is strange to see Indiana where it is but to have them be a juggernaut? That wasn’t remotely expected.
-They’ve played only three one score games this year.
-Let’s all recall that Miami got in at the expense of Notre Dame and laugh.
Have at it.
It’s wild how the SEC started struggling to compete as soon as they were forced to start paying their laborers.
Nobody Could Have Ever Seen This Coming!
(That said, I would expect USC to be better at the game.)
No, it’s actually that other conferences were finally able to pay their laborers an amount equal to what the SEC has been paying for decades.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
So IU is evil and miami is good in this scenario?
NCAA is evil.
God damn I got so many shirts i want to buy:
Bears NFC north champs shirt
IU rose bowl champs
Iu peach bowl champs
IU national champs
Legit question: will they make a shirt showing all the bowl victories?
Depends on which one. The one I got for last year shows the results but not the bowl names, but there are shirts that do show the bowl names as well.
Do you want me to check with some old friends in Africa to if they can get you a Miami National Champs shirt?
…..ngl, yeah
I ran into a kid in the middle of nowhere in the Transkei that was wearing a UConn shirt. It was just a generic surplus shirt of the husky mascot, not a fun misprint or anything. But it was still amusing to see, and to try to explain to him that I’d spent a summer there.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Photopea and a sketchy T-shirt shop.
Robert Saleh (SALEH!) on the brink of being hired by Don T’s Tits.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47667622/sources-titans-finalizing-deal-make-robert-saleh-coach
bloomington
The Fountain is going to be nuts right now
That’s awesome, what happened that could be drawing such a huge crowd? Did a train of gravy tank cars derail?
Klan rallies are back on the menu, boys!
Not sure where you’ve been for the last year…
There was a time when these guys weren’t all feds and federal informants.
I think I’m going to commission a cartoon comic:
A purdue fan points to the 5 IU national championship banners in assembly hall
“IU talks too much about the past”
Then he turns around to see a guy wearing a national champs shirt
“Sup?”
Meanwhile, in South Bend:
one of the very few things i got right as a young child was jumping off that bandwagon in the mid 90s
Remember…
Rudy was off sides!
Attending Catholic schools while at peak oppositional defiance mode kept me off that bandwagon like being fat kept me out of the rectory in the 1980s-90s.
God Wills It
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I swear I am not crying right now
Liquid pride. Totally different.
God damn, a very specific reference my friend. Well played
Let’s have Ball State win the national championship before Purdue now.
Bro…
Three straight National Championships from the Big Ten! Two legitimate!
capitalism and greed: we will ruin and kill college football, lol money money money!
college football: destroy the pac-12? BAMA IS DEAD. super-conferences? I WILL PUT A MANNING IN TEXAS AND MAKE ALL THE HANK HILLS CRY. trump with an executive order for nil? I WILL PROVE TO DABO THAT GOD IS DEAD. keep expanding the playoff? A BASKETBALL SCHOOL IS YOUR GOD NOW. overspend on coaches and buyouts on jabroni coaches that you re-hire yet again? A YINZER IS YOUR NEW NICK SABAN
Will?
The next few days in Bloomington are gonna make Little Five look like band camp.
Bruh, I want to go to little five again
My dad went to Little Five before I was born and has a souvenir seat cushion from it.
Ngl, I thought you were going to say you were conceived at little five
Think I’ll join you for that beer Coach.
Forget the celebrating in Bloomington; I think the whole town went to the game!
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Jesus: “Okay, I was able to help that Fernando kid win a championship. Sweet kid. Time to turn my attention on the rest of the world and its- DADDAMN IT! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!”
a periodical reminder: purdue sucks
I have fond memories of them in 2024.
The gravy is gonna flow like a river in Bloomington tonight.
A very slow river.
Well, it is Monday night, so business as usual?
This is the greatest thing to happen to Bloomington since they extended I-69 through town for no good reason.
America’s #1 party school!
WTF the last new cfb champ was in 96
All it took was creating a playoff, expanding it twice and destroying the Bowl Game System for it to happen.
And even that was Florida.
Congrats, Brocky.
Thanks friend.
I thought for sure something was going to go wrong.
Yep. Totes not gritting my teeth with jealousy…
At least there’s one of us here we can be sure god doesn’t hate. Congrats brocky!
Mendoza seems like a nice kid. Does he have to go to the Raiders?
Brocky streaking through the Clubhouse, dramatic re-creation:
Before if it was this.
I never got into college football. I’m guessing it’s because I went to a school that didn’t have a football team. But this thread made me put on the game just in time for the game winning arm punt.
We had tshirts that said ‘NYU football – Undefeated!’
Which was technically correct, the best kind of correct!
Molly McGrath: “Coach Cignetti, what did it take for Indiana to get to the national championship?”
Coach: “Hardwork, grit, determination, the bond of brotherhood our teams shares, and millions and millions of dollars of Mark Cuban’s money. That last one was probably the most important.”
I can’t wait for all those little Ugandan kids to celebrate Miami’s 2026 national championship with a new t-shirt.
Think Bobby Knight screamed out “first in football, maybe!”?
Welp, no cutting Irvin’s bricks with Lewis’ implements for Miami tonight. Crockett & Tubbs can look elsewhere for trouble tonight.
Jesus loves him some Brocky! SCENARIO 3!
I guess he owed me one.
Helps Fernando is tight with him
Even Jesus is like “Hey, Fernando, I appreciate all the love, but dial it back a little, eh?”
Time to see if Trump will sneak onto the stage to take the trophy or if they planned ahead and made an Equal Attention Trophy for the baby.
hes asleep
That motherfucker stays up until 4 AM, gets up at the crack of noon.
(Edit: grocer’s apostrophe)
Meteor can hit any time now.
…now!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Either the WR was supposed to break that route off, or that might be the worst pass ever.
It really was very bad.
Based on the few Miami games I’ve seen that exactly how it ends.
….wut?