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CFB 2025 Superlatives | National Champion Indiana, Season Recap, and Our Favs From This Season · The Extra Point

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What's up y'all? You're listening to the Extra
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Point college football podcast. I'm your host Jacob Carnage,
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joined as always by my Co host Daniel Hammock.
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Daniel, in today's episode we are going to put a bow on this
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season. We have crowned our national
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champion. Big Congrats to the Indiana
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Hoosiers. We're going to recap that game
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talked about how they won their first ever national
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championship. We're going to save some of the
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what does this mean for the sport for a future episode.
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Long offseason, unfortunately, but plenty of time to talk about
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the sport as a whole. We've got that coming for you,
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but we're going to recap the national championship on today's
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episode. Then we're going to put a bow on
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the 2025 season, Daniel. We're going to hand out some
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superlatives such as our team of the year, disappointing team of
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the year off into the defensive special teams, players of the
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year, some of our favorite uniforms, some of our favorite
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games. I will just kind of just talk
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about the 2025 season, what we loved about it hand out our
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superlatives. But Daniel first we we did crown
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a national champion on Monday night.
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Deanna we we both picking the cover.
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They just missed there on the cover post game win expectancy
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was about 80% to Miami's to Miami close championship game,
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closest championship game we've had since what the 2017 Alabama
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Georgia game that what's overtime.
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So you know, there, there was 3 championships in a row that were
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like 1 score games and those are the only ones in the playoff era
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that have been one score games. We got one of these in this
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game. Excellent championship game.
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I mean, let's talk about wonders first.
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Daniel. Indiana did it.
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I mean, we, we watched every second of this game.
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It, it felt like watching Indiana football the rest of the
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season. They didn't make mistakes.
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Yeah, and they capitalize on your mistakes.
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They I think that you said it perfectly multiple times this
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year about how at least through these playoffs, you've said
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Indiana's the best team. One of the greatest attributes
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of college football is that most of the time the best team wins
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the national championship. We did not think that that was
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necessarily true last year with Ohio State.
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Not that they're not a great team, but it's about balancing
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the regular season with everything.
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It's it's an overall encompassing and so Indiana
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finishing this off was truly a special moment.
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First national championship in in program history.
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I mean, anytime that you can say something like that, it's
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special. Obviously you start to be able.
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I think you have to wait until there's a finality to it before
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you can start being like, wow, this, you know, and you know,
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this was special. This was special.
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But you know, you really look at the whole season.
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I mean, Kurt Zignetti, what he's done in these two years,
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Fernando Mendoza, his remarkable, you know, Heisman,
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Heisman run, all the special things with Mendoza's parents.
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But do you know this team just being a bunch of veteran guys
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that transfer it over from from JMU And then also just some
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other super seniors that kind of stuck around.
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And, you know, they they really put their blood, sweat and tears
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into this sport, not leaving for other things and showed that,
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you know, what they could do together with special at this
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game in particular, though. I mean, it was something to
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behold. The blocked punt for a touchdown
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was very Indiana. It was something that they have,
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you know, special teams been a big part of this for them.
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Field position has been big. You know, watching this
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ultimately come down to, you know, Carson Beck with the ball
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in his hands going down the field, chance to score and win
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and Indiana's defense coming up with a big, you know,
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interception. As I was watching specifically
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that final drive, I just remember thinking, well, you
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know, all of this game has come down to and now, you know, it's
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in Miami's hands. They could do this.
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I believe Indiana was about to get off the field or not get off
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the field, but it was third and 15 when they had the roughing
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the passer penalty. And so, of course, gave Miami a
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first down. But that play I think impacted
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Carson Beck. Not that he hasn't thrown
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interceptions before, but I think that he when he got hit,
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you could kind of tell there was a difference in him.
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It was very much a he got rocked and it's just a tough hit.
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It was a hard hit. It wasn't necessarily dirty.
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It was late, but it wasn't necessarily dirty.
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It was just a good hit you put on a quarterback.
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But I mentioned in our group chat, Jacob, it may be one of
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the most underrated timeouts of the year.
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Kurt Signeti calling time out because after that play, Miami
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gets a little hot and they're just, you know, it's all muscle
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memory for Carson Beck at that point.
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And he's doing his two-minute drill going down the field and
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then, you know, kind of gets the first down, gets the first down,
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gets the first down. They're running hurry up.
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So of course, Indiana can't substitute.
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And again, he's not having to really process, which I think
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is, you know, he's hit pretty hard.
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I think he may have been a little, you know, concussed a
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little bit potentially. And so he, the way he was going
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about things I think was exactly what would have won in the game.
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But they called time out, slow things down.
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I compare it to like when you're running in basketball and you've
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got a good team that's good in transition versus making them
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pound the rock at half court and play half court ball.
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That's what they essentially did to Carson and made him read a
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defense and do some stuff. You know, if you're not 100% at
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that point or you're kind of, you know, zonked out of it and
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you're not hot anymore, he comes out and he throws a pick into
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double coverage. I mean, that was elite time out
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by Kurt Zignetti. Just another notch in his belt.
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But what a great championship game.
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I appreciate that. We had a good game.
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Like you said, best game we've had in a while.
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One score game down to the last possession.
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So very entertaining. I had fun.
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Grateful for the greatest sport known to man, college football.
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Yeah, I I want to stay on the that last drive there for a
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second before I talk more about Indiana.
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Just just for one of the topic of it.
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I saw someone say this and I thought was really good that
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that play required an NFL throw from Carson Beck and you didn't
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get wasn't the worst play, but from the opposite hash deep all
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across the field where you've got to get it over the corner.
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He had a step and then right before the safety gets there
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that that that is a Sunday throw that was required in that
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situation. And why are you calling it then
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when you have more time and was interesting.
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So, yeah, great time out because everywhere else was covered.
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It's like the Indiana, you know, you're always picking and
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choosing where you want to be strong, where you want it, where
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you're OK giving something up. And that seemed like a defensive
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call that was like, OK, we're going to lock down everything on
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the side of the field. And if he's going to be this,
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it's going to have to be to this receiver and I don't think he
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can do it. That was the defensive call.
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And at the end of the day, Carson Beck didn't do it.
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And that decides the championship, which again, I
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I'll I'll come back to why why I'm grateful than Indiana.
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One I talked about in the last episode.
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But another interesting stat. Unfortunately for Carson Beck,
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David Hale put this out that Carson Beck has had the ball
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with a chance to win or tie and excuse me, let me get back up.
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Carson Beck has 6 losses as a starter, right?
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In four of those games he had the ball with a chance to win or
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tie on the final drive and threw 4 game sealing interceptions.
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That's I mean tail was all the time at this point that was in
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our group shadow. This game only ends one way.
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It's what the Carson Beck game sealing interception and that's,
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that's, that's exactly what happened.
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Brother. Indiana, why?
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I'm really glad this happened. You mentioned it, Daniel.
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Indiana was the best team in college football this year and
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now they get to get they get crowned the national champion.
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So for the sport, I'm very, very grateful that Indiana won
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because they are a deserving 16 and O best team all year.
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And if you simply just go, you know, if you're someone who just
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ranks teams by the win loss column, like, I don't know, like
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the College Football Playoff committee, look, one team had 0
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losses and no one else had less than two.
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And it was two or more for everybody else in college
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football this year. So, yeah, this was a really
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special season for Indiana. Mendoza does what he did all
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year in this game. And that was like, Fernanda
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Mendoza did not have to do too much in this game, nor did he
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have to do too much all season. I think he had, I think he had
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one 300 yard game. Maybe he had no 300 yard games
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this year because I mean, I have seen very few teams, Daniel,
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that play with the precision that Indiana played with this
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year. And you saw it in this game and
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in a game that was decided on a blocked punt, like an
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interception, A fumble, a couple of coaching calls here and
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there. We got out coached national
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championship game Mario Cristobal opting to kick a 50
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yard field goal when he's down 10 instead of trying to get put
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your offense out there and say go get 2 yards.
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That's when you say we're bigger than you go get 2 yards.
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I I, it's just I again, Cristobal again and a game of
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margin where you had a chance to go win the game that you know,
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with the ball, the chance to go in the game.
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Decisions like that matter and a game like this where you can
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have it's the difference in having a championship and
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shutting up all the haters and not are calls like that.
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So to me, it was an encapsulation of both teams.
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Indiana play with precision. They had turnovers.
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They beat you in all three phases of the game.
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And if you want to say coaching all four phases of the game.
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And right, Miami showed their ceiling, which was Miami is
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capable of winning a national championship and they still have
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some ways to go. And I think that was Miami this
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year. Miami always had a championship
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ceiling and they came up short in three games.
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Congrats to Indiana. Now the question that we will
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talk about it more, but a question to be asked about who's
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the next Indiana. I don't know if there's a next
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Indiana. Let's let's appreciate what we
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just watched. I do think this is good for the
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sport. I think it gets plenty of fan
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bases. Hope that we can be the next
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Indiana. It is possible because if
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Indiana can do it, Daniel who can't do it honestly, I mean
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like what what what team I'll say outside.
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I mean, I know that part of this, I mean, Indiana is not out
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paying everybody, but they are a Big 10 school.
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So I'll say like. They at least stop resources as
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a baseline, but they're not. It's like they're not paying
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people like anything crazy. But what's stopping Purdue,
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Arkansas. I know Vanderbilt was good this
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year, but Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Northwestern,
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Rutgers, like what? What can the school say the
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Indiana has that they don't? It's nothing.
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So I think that's good for the sport.
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At the same time, I don't know if it's replicable.
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And I just want to appreciate what Kurtzing that he's done in
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these two years to bring in the end of their first national
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championship. It's unbelievable.
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And I said it a few weeks ago during the playoff, Chris Falika
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said this. I'll give him credit, but
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playing bad loses you more games than playing good wins them.
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And Indiana did not play bad this year.
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They were not. They were not going to beat
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themselves. They weren't going to make
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mistakes. They weren't going to miss
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blocks, they weren't going to drop punts like punts get
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blocked. They just.
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The level of precision was unbelievable this year.
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Shout out to the Hoosiers man Congrats.
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Largest living alumni base. Go enjoy it.
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You guys are the kings of college football.
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Again, regardless of what happens to in the Indiana after
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this. Greatest turn around coaching.
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Greatest coaching job I think I've ever seen in the sport
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since I've been watching it closely.
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Coolest story I think I've seen in the sport since I've been
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watching it closely. So Congrats to Indiana, your
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national champion, Daniel. Let's let's go to our 2025
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superlatives. We, you know, we're texting back
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and forth about these team of the year as it will start with
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and our 2025 extra Point team of the year is Indiana.
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And I told you, I said it will be Indiana regardless of the
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result because yeah, I'm like, I don't care if they win or lose.
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I'm like they've earned to me prior to the national
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championship game, best team in college football.
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Like in so Indiana team of the year, we just talked about them,
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but what a special season they were.
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The story of college football this year.
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And I mean, what's crazy Daniel is maybe I'm wrong.
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I haven't looked a lot of the draft stuff yet.
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But I don't think this is a team that's going to go have 13 draft
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picks this year as far as I know.
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I think there's definitely NFL talent, but special team.
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They they absolutely deserve team of the Year, obviously, but
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we'll give it out anyway. Yeah, I mean, Signetti even said
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on on the podium, I believe that, you know, the the whole
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was greater than some of its parts.
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And he even said there's not going to be these draft picks
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and stuff. Now, Mendoza, of course,
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quarterback is most important position and I think that that
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you know, and it not supersedes everything that they had going
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for it, but basically supercharged that, I'll say.
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And he's going to probably be the number one overall pick.
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I think that just the way things have gone, especially with Dante
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Moore returning to school. So yeah, I think that that's
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kind of in the back. But yeah, Indiana, I mean, wow,
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I think that there's going to be some people who watered down
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what exactly just happened because they've seen Indiana now
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in first place for three months because the last month of the
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season dragged on like crazy. But I think it would like
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exactly what you said, Like we really need to put this in
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perspective of like what has happened over the course of
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Indiana's like, lifetime. And then now over the course of,
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you know, these past two years with, you know, last year it was
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almost like, OK, will it, You know, we will accept the fact
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that Indiana won these games, play their easy schedule, lost
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by a million to Ohio State and then lost their playoff game to
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Notre Dame, will accept it. You know, that's that's
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acceptable. That's palatable.
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You know, Signet is a good coach, but he can't really do it
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at Indiana. And then they really did it
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Indiana this year. So I just, yeah, like you said,
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as far as turnarounds go, I mean, you can only think of like
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Sabin level of turn around and it was like obviously he's the
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greatest coach of all time and. It was still Alabama.
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And it was still Alabama, so it was going to a place that had
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resources and history. And he still in his first year
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lost to Alicia and Monroe, lost six games or seven games,
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whatever it was. So you know that the turn around
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was much quicker and you know, the championship was came much
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faster. So we will see what it it means
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for the sport going forward. But very happy as a college
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football fan, like you said, just for Indiana, for those
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fans, seems like they're a good fan base.
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So happy for them. I know that they've really
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enjoyed this year. The picture that's been going
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around, Jacob of Cignetti's first game last year opening,
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that was really fun to watch. And it's not an indictment on
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the fan base, by the way, for anyone who thinks it's an
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indictment on the fan base, you try being the most losingest,
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you know, team in in FBS history as far as, yeah, Power 5 is
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concerned. So that was, yeah.
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They had nothing to cheer about yet.
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Now they do. This fan base has opened UPS.
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Excited to see what this unlocks in the future for college
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football. Yeah, I think Signetti's also
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ruined how many fan bases are going to say, dude, Signetti did
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it in Indiana, so why is it our coach in Year 1 going 11:00 and
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1:00? Yeah, he freezes there.
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At this point, he's done with man.
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They are they are so many like Indiana is the answer to so many
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anomalies and you can't use logic.
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I still can't believe that we're I mean, we're two days in the
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Nati. I watched it happen.
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They're 16 or no, they're the Champs.
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And I'm like, how in the world did Indiana win the national
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championship? The Cignetti.
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It's crazy holding a PlayStation controller.
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What happened here, you know? Right.
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He's been on an easy mode. It's like those things you see
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where people are like angry after a loss and they had to
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take some frustration out. Kurt Cignetti was doing that in
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real football. But to like Oregon in the semi
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final. So goodness, Gracie.
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Yeah. Congrats to Indiana, our team of
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the year. Dingo.
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How about our surprise team of the year?
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So what's a team that maybe had mediocre low expectations that
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blew us away for a surprise year?
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You're holding up an hour being a hootie.
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Who? The Kennesaw State Owls, the
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Conference USA champs? Did they get snubbed from the
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playoff? Some are saying, some are saying
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biggest playoffs. So yeah, Kennesaw State.
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How? How about them Owls, Daniel?
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Yeah, man, they lost to Michigan in the bowl game.
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I mean, it was Western Michigan, but still.
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They played like Michigan. Yeah, that was that was a tough
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game. But no Kennesaw State.
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Look, for all that we said about Indiana on the small scale, you
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think about Kennesaw State coming from what they've come
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from, not, you know, just joining the FBS couple years
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ago. Obviously we're at Kennesaw
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State pod because you know, we're located in Kennesaw.
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I went to Kennesaw, we went to Kennesaw State.
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But that being said, I think Kennesaw State that kind of turn
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around that Jerry Mack did that quickly a winning 10 games and
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being a fun story, winning conference Conference USA just
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definitely a fun story. So they did, you know, give
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Indiana a game for like a driver to in in September.
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So never forget, you know? Daniel, they were a couple plays
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away from being tenant to me. You could argue refs stole the
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Wake Forest game from him. Almost went on the road and beat
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Wake Forest in week 1. Lost 9 to 10 in that one and
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their quarterback was. Over that game.
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Yeah. You know.
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And then, you know, won the rematch at Jacksonville State.
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So yeah, Congrats to Jerry Mack in the Owls, our 2025 surprise
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team of the year. Let's go to the other side.
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Look, we try to be positive. We start with the good.
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Let's go to the to the disappointing.
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How about the most disappointing team of 2025 and big old sorry
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to graphics guy Ben, the Clemson Tigers are our 2025 most
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disappointing team of the year, Daniel.
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I picked them to not only win the ACCI picked them to go to
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the playoff. I also picked him to win a
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playoff game I believe against my better judgement.
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So is this? Is this me being bitter and
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angry? I mean, a little bit, if I'm
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being honest, but I cuz I, I think I'm bitter because I was
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right on Clemson and then I tried, I listened to everybody
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else tell me no, no, no, this is the year.
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And I was like, you know what? Yeah, you know what?
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Yeah, I'm, I'm talking myself back into it right now on the
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podcast. They had the Indiana formula,
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Daniel, that their average age at Clemson was probably 22.
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I mean, this was like the veteran roster returning
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production. So I'm like, I, I was like, OK,
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I get why people are saying Clemson's been disappointing,
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but this is the dab away. Like this is what he's been
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trying to say is, look, I'm not going to win it every year
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anymore. Every 3 or 4.
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I'm going to recruit good talent, our OK GS, our kind of
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guys. They're going to stay here and
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develop. We've got a five star
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quarterback who's been with our OC for three years.
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Like we've got a veteran defense that's full of four and five
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stars that are OK GS. I was like, OK, I I see it, I
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get it. I'll go against a better
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judgement. So yeah, for me and for you, I
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mean that this is our most disappointing team of the year.
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Like it was between Denver, Penn State and we we respected the
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results of the, you know, the the vaunted bad boy, bad boy
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mowers been straight. So yeah, I mean that comes in
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most. Disappointing, by the way,
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that's that's I was I was like, if he doesn't mention this, I'm
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bringing it up. And I love that when we were
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texting Ben to say, Hey, this is not a personal.
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But we did respect the results of the bad boy mowers pinstripe
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bowl. Look, Penn State, they got next.
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They were so close to being the most disappointing team that
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they just finished finished that game.
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You know they that's. Right.
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That was that was good. But yeah, I know.
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I I agree in the Clemson, like you said, they had the Indiana
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formula, but they had actual, you know, blue chip guys baked
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in. We didn't mention this with
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Indiana. I'll say it really quick
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actually. I'll just save it for our next
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one. How about that?
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I'll save it for our next. Yes, save it.
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I know you're going to save it. Yeah, OK, Clemson, most
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disappointing team of the year. There's always next year.
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They're right. They right now have a top.
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What is it their 16th right now in the transfer portal rankings?
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So they're changing stuff like Clemson.
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As the top 20 class in the transfer portal.
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So how about that? Which is crazy for Clemson.
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So here's to Clemson not being the most disappointing team for
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2026. You know, we're going to be
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hopeful in that well. You can't be disappointing if
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your expectations have been lowered.
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That's right, expect low and let them blow you away.
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I mean that in a kind way. Yeah, OK.
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Coach of the year, Daniel. No, no surprises here.
21:23
Kurt Cignetti ones coach of the year.
21:25
I feel like sometimes this award, they try to out think the
21:27
room like 2022 for example. It's like, well, I mean, coach
21:31
of the year is Kirby Smart, but it almost becomes like what?
21:34
It almost becomes like most surprising coach.
21:36
Yeah. Of.
21:37
Yeah, which coach were we not expecting a lot out of?
21:41
And TCU made the natty so like it's going to go to Sonny Dykes
21:45
and and or you know, insert there's countless examples of
21:49
this of like they went nine and three on when I expected them to
21:52
go 3:00 and 9:00. And that becomes your coach of
21:54
the year. It's like a LeBron award as far
21:56
as MVP goes. Like, he should have won if
22:00
you're truly going back. He was the most valuable.
22:02
He should, like, should have won seven or eight of them, but he
22:04
only has four. And it's like, well, they were
22:07
given to this guy 'cause this guy had a good year on a bad
22:10
team that, Yep, barely made the playoffs since.
22:13
Like, OK, all right. Don't I think the room cursing
22:16
daddy was coach of the year this year Let's let's just yeah 16
22:19
and O in Indiana. I mean unbelievable coaching job
22:22
Daniel Indiana broke. I mean, again, we keep telling
22:25
them the anomaly. We haven't talked about the big
22:28
trend they broke. Daniel, what was?
22:29
It Yeah, it I thought you were about to say it.
22:34
I was about to say it. We've all got dude.
22:36
He blow, he broke the blue chip ratio.
22:38
It's officially done. It's over with.
22:40
And this was the right team to do it.
22:42
Desmond may not be toast been a true anomaly, but Kurt Zignetti
22:48
a good reason to mention blue chip ratio right here is that it
22:52
broke and you need a herculean effort from a coach like this
22:56
who early indicators are he's that dude.
23:00
So great job by him. His confidence and it's not
23:03
arrogance. I've I've, I've really
23:06
appreciated how confident he is without being disrespectful or
23:11
anything like that. And he just seems like he loves
23:14
ball. He coaches ball.
23:15
He's not trying to do the saving shtick.
23:17
He's not trying to be anybody else but himself.
23:20
And I have nothing but respect for someone who does that.
23:22
So great on him. He's got a fun name to say.
23:27
You know, he's he's got a lot going for him.
23:28
This, this was obvious this year.
23:30
But yeah, breaking the blue chip ratio.
23:33
I mean, the Clemson could have been Indiana, like we said, they
23:38
actually have the blue chips, but Indiana only having 44 star
23:43
or excuse me, 7 four-star players on this roster, truly
23:47
remarkable. No five stars.
23:49
So, you know, they just did it with a bunch of guys who been in
23:52
the program and, you know, they had some transfers that have
23:55
played elsewhere and really bet on themselves.
23:57
So great job, Kurt Signetti. I'm, I'm looking here at the
24:00
blue chip ratio stuff. I don't even see what Indiana's
24:04
number was. Somebody will have to tell me,
24:05
'cause I was looking at one minute.
24:08
It's that's what. I'm saying out of 85 S.
24:11
When he doesn't include transfers.
24:13
So this is like what historically it's been you have
24:16
to recruit more four and five star.
24:19
I mean, I think the transfer talent was four and five star
24:21
either, to be completely honest. But yeah, it's more four and
24:24
five stars out of high school than two and three stars.
24:26
And I mean, he says in the article before the season this
24:29
year, it's the question, will someone eventually bust the
24:31
model? And he said at some point
24:33
probably question mark a team with a high 40s blue chip ratio,
24:38
a transcendent quarterback and a lot of health like will probably
24:41
win it all. And his example was Oregon with
24:44
Marcus Mariota in 2014. But that was a high 40s team in
24:47
the blue chip ratio, Heisman winning quarterback.
24:50
They went and beat for the state, lost to Ohio State in the
24:52
title game. And he was like who might be the
24:55
season like teams that fit that category would have been Ole
24:58
Miss, South Carolina, Louisville, Utah.
25:01
And so any and it doesn't touch the blue chip ratio.
25:04
I mean, a true anomaly. They did get the transcendent
25:07
quarterback play. They did get a lot of health
25:10
luck this year. A true anomaly.
25:14
Kurt Zignetti, coach of the year.
25:17
How about offensive player of the year, Daniel, where again
25:20
going to not I'll think the room here.
25:23
It's Fernando Mendoza. He had probably his biggest
25:26
Heisman moment after he won the Heisman in the national
25:30
championship game. Apparently it was not a called
25:33
quarterback draw. Well, it was it was a read.
25:35
It's like if if they he said if they run man, I'm supposed to
25:38
throw it. If they run zone, I'm supposed
25:41
to run it. And he said in pre snap he
25:43
identified that they were playing half the field in man
25:45
and half the field in zone. And he just said, I'm going to
25:48
bet on myself and run the ball. And I thought I was like, oh, he
25:51
got the first down, but he's going to be short of the goal.
25:54
And then he just like extends, takes a shot to the I mean dude,
25:57
he took so many shots in this game and he's still talking
26:00
1,000,000 miles a minute. He is post game just smiling.
26:04
He's fun. He is so fun.
26:07
He's pure too. It's like a tree.
26:08
Easy to root for. It's really, And so it was so
26:11
funny listening to him with Scott Van Pelt after the game.
26:14
Jacob, he was talking. Gavin Pelt was teeing up a
26:17
question about how Tim Tebow has been a mentor for him.
26:20
And Mr. Tebow kept calling him Mr. Tebow.
26:23
He says Mr. Tebow, Mr. you know, Mr. Tebow told me this and he
26:26
has this great. And he's like, you could call
26:28
him Tim. He's like, oh, yeah, OK, Tim and
26:30
Tim so funny. And then seeing that's so funny.
26:34
I almost said Mr. Tebow just then seeing Tim Tebow respond on
26:38
Twitter and say, come on, man, Mr. Tebow's my dad and I just
26:41
think that everybody's having fun.
26:43
You know, Fernando Mendoza does kind of give that same Tebow
26:47
feel good story that most people had.
26:49
We didn't because we were Georgia fans.
26:51
But he, you know, he kind of had that that kind of rally, yeah
26:55
sport behind him where they all felt like, hey, this is a good
26:58
guy. We can all.
26:59
Cheer for him. And it was just a very much a
27:02
fun story. Also Fernando Mendoza's parents,
27:04
what a sweet story with them. Very sweet.
27:08
You know, all everything that went into it, dude, let's just
27:11
pick the guy who had, you know, the Heisman Trophy and had the
27:15
moments and LED this team to a victory.
27:18
Like you said, we're not going to out think the room that that
27:20
play was insane. Up until that play, we were
27:23
like, Oh yeah, his Heisman moment was maybe against Penn
27:26
State or whatever. This one, I mean, is that one on
27:29
steroids, man, for everything, you know, put them in position
27:33
to win this game and take that lead, man, that was awesome.
27:37
So cool for your best players to be making the best plays at the
27:41
end of the game. Yeah, I think the room for Dana
27:44
Mendoza high as a winner off it's a player of the year.
27:47
How about D for the player of the year?
27:48
And I promise we did not just go who played in the natty, but
27:52
Daniel, the most impressive defensive player that I watched
27:55
this year's Ruben Bayne and watching him play that, you
27:59
know, work. We're calling it edge now, this
28:00
modern defensive position because he does both sides so
28:04
well. I think we've had some really
28:06
elite like run edge talent, almost like the more defensive
28:11
end style from back in the day. And we've seen great pass
28:14
rushing talent, more like the traditional outside linebacker
28:17
pass rusher. I think we've seen both a second
28:21
of my buddy Sam about this, like, I don't know, the last one
28:24
I saw he said, when was the last time we watched like the the
28:28
like the most elite edge player in the country play for a
28:32
national championship? And I was and I was like, I
28:36
mean, Trayvon Walker, but I mean, even even Georgia fans
28:38
would have been like, Oh, he's like the 5th or 6th player on
28:40
defense that we'd mentioned in number one overall draft pick
28:45
because I'm like, I was like, I don't know, Nolan Smith.
28:48
I went all the way back to because you know what Smith, I'd
28:51
say is more of that traditional D end, great run edge.
28:55
Right. But Caleb von Chaison was the
28:58
first edge taken out of that from that 2019 LSU.
29:02
Team. But I don't think that he was
29:05
like that year, you know, like all year we're like, Oh my gosh,
29:10
this. Edge.
29:10
Yeah, there. Wasn't, I mean, I, I said Will
29:13
Anderson. I mean, and Will Anderson, he
29:15
that wasn't even the best year when he played in the natty
29:18
anyways. It's been a while since we've
29:19
had like this, no doubt unbelievable edge talent make it
29:23
to this final game and get to play on the biggest stage.
29:25
And he was special in this national championship man.
29:28
I mean, if Miami would have won that game, we'd be talking about
29:31
the performance that Ruben Bain had.
29:32
He had an unbelievable year this year.
29:34
His side speed bend, the way he sheds blockers, the way he can
29:40
like rush the passer and also stay like edge disciplined
29:44
against the rates. He is special.
29:47
I cannot wait to see what NFL team gets him.
29:49
I wished it. I wish the Falcons would draft
29:50
him as these. We will be long gone for the
29:53
team without a draft pick or without a draft pick in the
29:55
first round. Yeah, Reuben Bayne man is is our
29:58
defensive player of the year. Just a special special season
30:01
for a special special player. Yeah, it's one of these where he
30:05
almost is the flagship for the entire Miami defensive line.
30:11
Like they were all great. Reuben Bayne was obviously the
30:14
guy that was the main. You know, I think honestly, it
30:19
may be since as far as just kind of a consensus as far as across
30:23
college football, saying if you asked everybody who's the best
30:27
defensive end or who's the best pass rusher, it may have been as
30:30
far as, you know, just notoriety like Jadeveon Clowney.
30:34
That's how long it's been. I feel like since there's been
30:36
like a consensus where everybody's like, oh, that's the
30:39
guy. And you know, 9 1/2 sacks this
30:42
year, some people look at that and say, oh, it's kind of
30:44
pedestrian. Shouldn't he have like double
30:45
digits? I say pedestrian kind of tongue
30:48
in cheek there, of course. But I think, you know, he's he
30:52
affected so many games and Miami's best unit all year was
30:56
their defensive line. So it's like led by him and it's
31:00
just a fierce unit all together. So, you know, good on him for
31:04
how well he's played all year, interception, of course, fumble
31:08
recovery, all that stuff. He's going to make a lot of
31:10
money in the NFL. But just like you said, as far
31:12
as that being the guy that's a bull rusher and a speed rusher,
31:16
like I I wouldn't even put, you know, Will Anderson in that
31:18
category. I know you were talking
31:20
specifically about being in national championship, but
31:23
thinking about those guys, it is like Jadeveon Clowney esque
31:26
where it's like a guy that's just a freak that's big.
31:30
That's like his presence is known when you're on the field.
31:34
And I think that that's that's exactly who he is.
31:36
So fun, fun year for him. Kind of everybody got to
31:39
discover him early in the year as far as nationally and then
31:43
just kind of rode the wave with him the whole way.
31:46
I'll add one more as far as a little more recent than Clowny
31:49
Miles Garrett, yeah, fair. I mean, he was, I mean first
31:51
overall pick obviously was very good.
31:55
But. It's funny because.
31:56
He's been even better in the NFL.
31:58
Where? Then he wasn't.
32:00
One of those guys like Jadevion Clowney, you could argue was
32:03
better in college than the NFL. So hopefully for his sake he's
32:06
he's like Miles Garrett because then he'll be better at the next
32:09
level. So.
32:10
Daniel We are a true college football podcast, which means we
32:14
we love and understand the game. So we don't stop at offense and
32:18
defense. Daniel There there are three
32:19
phases of the game. Special teams is a part of
32:22
football. So we're going to award our
32:24
special teams player of the year.
32:25
And Daniel, it would be way too easy to just name a returner,
32:29
but honestly, I think probably Nibblet from Texas, probably
32:31
best return of this year, but no one stuck out as truly special.
32:36
But we love punting. We're going to award it to a
32:38
punter, the Ray Guy winner Brett Thorson from Georgia.
32:43
Daniel, I don't even know if he had his best year this year.
32:45
He was quiet, which tells me he probably did have his best year
32:48
this year. Average 45 1/2 yards of punt,
32:51
had a long of 66. You know, I think the stat was
32:54
he only had, I'm trying to think it was 4 punts they were even
32:58
returned to this year, right? Which is again the skill of the
33:01
punter. Shout out to the Australian
33:04
Brett Thorson, our 2025 Special Teams Player of the Year.
33:09
Yeah. So looking at all of his career
33:11
stats, if you go by net yardage, last year was his best year,
33:15
2024 also just his overall average last year was probably
33:18
his best year. But yeah, I think if you
33:20
encompass everything, I mean, it's funny because last year he
33:24
gets injured at the end of the year, you're kind of questioning
33:26
is he even going to be able to come back?
33:27
You know, it's his plant foot. So I think that's another layer
33:31
to it. Like, hey, he had this great
33:33
year after being injured at the very end of last year with a a
33:36
knee injury because he's a football player, man.
33:39
He'll stick his nose in there and make a tackle.
33:41
He's from Australia, so he knows, you know, I'm going to
33:45
get down and and and dirty with my guys and just make, make
33:50
tackles if guys are making a a return.
33:52
So I'm excited for him. I'm glad that he did.
33:55
And I guess if you look at his long, he had his second longest
33:59
punt this year, 66 yards. His longest, which you know, I'm
34:04
sure had some help was in 2022, a 75 yard punt, which does not
34:08
seem possible. So of course there's probably a
34:10
great role with that. But we have fun nonetheless.
34:13
But yeah, he had still a very good, this was his second best
34:16
year if you go by it. But after last year being such a
34:20
great year and coming off an injury, I think this is a very
34:23
special year for him. So good on him for the Ray Guy
34:25
Award and even better, he gets the Superlative from the Extra
34:28
Point podcast. Even better also send a ultimate
34:32
plaques for next year. We'll, we'll send one to to
34:34
Brett and. Maybe graphics plaques?
34:36
Maybe Ben can help us with that. How?
34:39
About there you go, Ben next project for him.
34:41
How about freshman of the year and Daniel this this player
34:44
almost won off the player of the year.
34:45
We we had to talk about it, but I mean, was there any freshman
34:49
more impressive than Malachi Tony this year?
34:52
And again, not only the fact that they made it to the
34:54
national championship, but Daniel early on in the season, I
34:57
mean, opening game against Notre Dame, it's like, Oh my gosh,
35:00
like. And apparently the Miami staff
35:02
just could not sing his praises enough.
35:05
You know, he did everything Miami's offense ran through him.
35:08
You knew he was getting the ball.
35:10
He still ends with 1200 yards, 11.1 yards per reception through
35:17
9 receptions, 10 touchdowns. He was just special with the
35:20
ball in his hand. He ran the ball to, in my
35:23
opinion, just the freshman that stuck out the most easily in the
35:26
country this year with Malachi Tony.
35:28
Yeah, I know we're going up and down this national championship
35:31
game with all these guys. There's a reason they made it
35:33
this far. Malachi, Tony, I think was was a
35:36
surprise to Miami. And yeah, the way that he kind
35:39
of blew up. I mean, I was joking.
35:42
He is what everybody thought Ryan Williams was.
35:44
You know, he's like the impact that Jeremiah Smith was to Ohio
35:47
State, Mal Katoni doing everything for them for for
35:51
Miami has a rushing touchdown as well.
35:53
I know you mentioned he ran the ball and it wasn't nothing.
35:56
He ran, you know, 23 carries. He had about about 5 yards of
35:59
carry. So definitely was used all over
36:02
the field and I think helped alleviate some pressure on
36:05
Carson Beck at times. And you know, he's he's
36:08
definitely probably their brightest star in the future.
36:11
So I think they're probably hoping to keep him from the
36:14
portal. I know that Miami is usually
36:16
destination and not somewhere that people leave, but they
36:18
probably are going to make sure he's well fed and taken care of.
36:22
He will be he made a lot of money this offseason.
36:24
That's usually something to reserve for NFL players.
36:26
Now he he made a lot of money to come back to Miami and and be
36:29
their receiver. So Congrats to Malachi, Tony
36:31
Daniel. How about enough of players?
36:34
How about the game of the year? There's a lot of good college
36:36
football games this year. I will start with this.
36:39
Our bias was definitely two games in the regular season
36:43
played on college campuses. And if you add a rivalry in
36:47
there, that's going to make it even better because that's
36:51
what's amazing. That's the best part of college
36:53
football according to you and me.
36:54
And I think if you're trying to get someone into college
36:56
football, you show them a rivalry game on campus and say,
36:59
this is this is what we're all about.
37:00
That's what's special. So there is a game that was not
37:03
only one of the best games of the season, but also fit in that
37:06
criteria. And Daniel, it might have won
37:08
this even without that criteria, but this was a game.
37:13
This is October, September, September.
37:15
It was in September. Georgia at Tennessee, order 41.
37:19
Excuse me, Georgia 44, Tennessee 41 in overtime.
37:24
You know, the moment I'm going to remember from this game was
37:27
fourth. Is it 4th and 6th?
37:29
4th and 6th? Yeah, I think so.
37:31
Game on the line, need a first down to extend it.
37:33
Gunner stock and there's a 38 yard touchdown might have been
37:36
the best throw all all season to put it in that spot in that
37:40
moment with the game on the line, you not only needed, you
37:44
know, the first down there, you were down 8.
37:46
So they had to go get the touchdown and the two point to
37:48
send it to overtime. They got it.
37:51
This game was back and forth lots of lead changes.
37:53
I mean Tennessee was up 21. Seven Georgia storms back and
37:57
takes a 24. You know, 2721 lead.
37:59
Excuse me and it seemed like all right, you know, they're going
38:02
to put this one away. Tennessee takes another lead,
38:04
another lead chain. I mean, Tennessee gets up 3830.
38:07
Before that big moment there was checker Neyland.
38:10
Great uniform matchup. Yep.
38:13
It checked all the boxes for me, 330 game.
38:15
I mean checked all the boxes for me for an elite college football
38:18
game. Then on top of it, we got look
38:21
people like scoring. We got a high scoring game that
38:23
what's overtime. So a really fun game to watch.
38:26
That one's our 2025 Game of the Year.
38:29
Yeah, I mean, there's a, there's not, there's not anything like
38:32
a, a good rivalry game on campus.
38:36
And so we we really enjoyed going through this list.
38:42
There was some that were very good games that right there on
38:45
the chopping block like Texas A&M, Notre Dame, like some games
38:48
like that that were very good. They're on campus and we're, you
38:52
know, glad to have watched them. But you know that I guess the
38:55
edge was that this one was over, you know, overtime and it was a
38:59
rival game. So all that to be said, this was
39:01
kind of like the game that kind of put both teams on the map
39:05
because people already kind of respected Georgia, but now they
39:08
respected George's offense because of what they did against
39:11
Tennessee. And then this was a way that
39:13
they respected, you know, Tennessee seeing that they could
39:16
go toe to toe with Georgia. So very fun, very, very good way
39:19
to kind of jump start the year in September no less.
39:24
Yeah, that was an excellent game.
39:25
How about upset of the year? This could have won game of the
39:28
year as well. Then you couldn't go anywhere
39:31
else other than UCLA or Penn State.
39:33
I think this was the most shocking result of the season
39:36
into like what it did. Like this was the game Daniel,
39:39
that that fired James Franklin. I know that he didn't get fired
39:42
until after the Northwestern game, but this was the game that
39:46
everyone was like, Oh no, like the bottoms going to fall out
39:49
Because I think, I mean, all of us thought, including us, it was
39:53
like, OK, they lose to Oregon and overtime.
39:54
That sucks. Long season.
39:57
You go 10 and two like Penn State tends to do, you're going
40:00
to be in it. Yes, you got to go on the road
40:02
to Ohio State, but even with that, it's like, OK, same old
40:04
Penn State. I guess they go to the playoff
40:05
attend and to lose to Oregon and Ohio State.
40:09
We're sitting here watching it and I mean, I think it was 24/7
40:13
at some point. And it's like, oh, and I think
40:15
it was 27, seven. And then Penn State comes back,
40:18
it's 2721 and it's like, OK, Penn State, you know, you get
40:23
down from last week, you wake up, you had to go across the
40:25
country. They're awake now.
40:26
They're going to come take it. And then boom, 34, seven.
40:29
UCLA goes 3421. Excuse me where it was like
40:33
commit state kept getting close and then UCLA just kept putting
40:35
it within 2 scores. You know, the stuff with new
40:39
Heisel was cool with Rick in the studio watching it.
40:42
And I think everyone thought that that he was their head
40:46
coach for most of season. It's just their offensive cord.
40:51
Yeah. But yeah, that was definitely
40:53
the the result of the year that shook me the most.
40:55
So upset of the year. Yeah, completely agree.
40:58
Obviously we agreed before we did all this, but this is the
41:01
game that broke college football this year.
41:03
Like you're you're alluding to it, but this is the one that not
41:07
only Penn State, but it just kind of it started the process.
41:10
James Franklin gets fired, other guys are getting fired.
41:13
You know, and then just it started that tumultuous, like
41:17
people are churning towards, you know, when this college football
41:20
season is going to end and what you know, who's going to do what
41:23
and who's coaching where. And, you know, it kind of
41:26
started the offseason conversation in September
41:28
whenever this game was October. But yet like you said, Jerry
41:32
knew high school was like the well he got promoted to play
41:36
caller in this game and I feel like they just had a Jerry Cam
41:40
the whole time. Obviously it was CBS, so it had
41:43
or I think it was CBS, was it not?
41:46
I think you're right. Or CBS Sports Network, whatever
41:48
it was. But Rick Neuhauser, who works
41:50
for CBS, was constantly on, you know, they were getting to him
41:54
and he was emotional and great moment for obviously him being
41:57
former UCLA coach, obviously dad of Jerry, Jerry Heisler.
42:00
And then I, they just had a camera on him the whole time.
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And everybody's like, who's this guy with the blonde hair with
42:06
the play sheet just, you know, dicing up James Franklin's
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defense. So very fun.
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And yeah, this game, this game broke college football, broke
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the Internet. But it has to be mentioned.
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We had to find a way to talk about this game if we're giving
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superlatives for the year. Yeah, I mean that would
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unbelievable upset again the one that stuck with us the most and
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shook college football. How about play of the year?
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It's going to involve fortunately get involved one of
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the same teams Penn State Indiana.
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If you watch this game here, we're going Daniel one toe tap
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that potentially saved in it definitely saved their perfect
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season. Daniel had Omar Cooper junior
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not caught this ball on 4th down the toe tap.
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Go ahead touchdown against Penn State.
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Deanna doesn't even make the Big 10 championship.
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Oregon would have gone ahead of them.
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No, that's not true because they beat Oregon.
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That's not true. I had in my head they would have
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they would have still made it, but perfect season ruined.
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Who knows how the season ends up.
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They have this loss and now now we'll forever sitting here
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wondering what will it take to beat Indiana this year.
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We'll never know. They didn't lose and this was
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the the play that saved their season.
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I I mean, I haven't seen a catch like this in a long time in
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college Football is unbelievable.
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Yeah, just a great play, you know, for it to have the
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ramifications that it did at the time, it just, it, it was a
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great play. There's not much else to be
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said. You know, you're an inch away
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from losing the game essentially, whether he catches
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it, gets his foot in or if anything goes wrong on that
43:42
play, you don't get it. So it just kind of a culmination
43:45
of really the only close game that they had or the only game
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this season where it felt like this is the one they're going to
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lose. Every other game I felt like
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they were in complete control the whole time.
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This one felt like they're going to lose this game and they took
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it back. It was their game.
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It was their game after that. All right, a couple fun ones.
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Daniel, we'd like to talk about uniforms again.
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One of my favorite things about college football.
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I'm glad that you've been able to share in that with me.
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Again, it's one of the things we've always loved, but we've
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never brought into the podcast and we feel like most fans are
44:16
like us and that, yeah, you look like uniforms.
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Just something to talk about. It's unique with football
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because you've got a helmet, jersey and pants.
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It's all got. A lot of changes every week in
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the NFL. For the most part, they have,
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hey, this is our set and we have one alternate and that's it, you
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know, so, but college man, they could come out with something
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different every week with Oregon or whoever.
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That's right. It's a big deal specifically for
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college football. It is our uniform match above
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the year two schools played that I think have.
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I'm going to have to do this in the offseason, Daniel, But I
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think these two schools have a top five closet in the country.
44:55
But USC versus Michigan, I mean, 2, it's a helmet game.
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You got red and blue. And you know me, Daniel,
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Michigan used to wear Mace pants.
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It's a rule of mine. There are a few exceptions or
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they can wear blue pants on the road.
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This is one of them because USC has gold pants.
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So again, for a great uniform matchup, yes, you need 2 great
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uniforms, but also contrast. And we've also talked about how
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the color of the grass matter something when you're watching
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on TV. How the stadium looks matter.
45:27
Sometimes what network heads on matters as far as like how the
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cameras look. But this game was perfect.
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Michigan wore their their blue pants to contrast the gold pants
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of USC. You've got the winged helmet,
45:39
You've got the Trojan on the side of USC, some with the Gray
45:41
face mask. 2 elite college football uniforms.
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Not a great game, but an incredible uniform match up.
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This won the uniform match up of the week for was this week 7 and
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I kept tracking maybe week 11. Anyway, I kept tracking
45:54
throughout the season and that that that became our number one
45:57
for the entire season. Daniel is USC versus Michigan,
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the 2025 winner of the Uniform Match Up of the Year.
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Yeah, I'm glad that, you know, one of these things.
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I'm glad that this game was a blowout in the sense that it
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could really highlight that you weren't picking this because the
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game was good and you were just like hanging on every moment,
46:19
you know, and and like, that's why the uniforms really stood
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out to you. It's like, no, no, no, no, no.
46:24
The game ended up being a blowout.
46:27
It did not matter. You know, there was a what, 31
46:31
to 13 or whatever, but these uniforms look perfect.
46:35
So I agree, we're both purists as far as that's concerned.
46:38
And so it's it's nice to get, you know, for a couple of teams
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that have been doing it right for a long time.
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And like you said, Michigan didn't screw it up.
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They had the right pants on for the matchup.
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It looked great. We got it.
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We got to end with a funny one. Worst uniform of the year goes
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to every team that wore a blackout uniform and Black's not
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a part of the school colors. No, that that should have won it
47:01
though. Other nominees include Michigan
47:03
wearing all blue, Notre Dame wearing white pants.
47:08
But I mean the real winner. If we're just talking about you,
47:10
you see it and you're like, look, I'm not trying to pick out
47:13
AG5 school here, but shout out to the huge zip miners.
47:18
Dude, they're week 4. You know, if you're if you're on
47:20
YouTube, it's on screen now, but if you're not, you're on
47:22
podcast. Look this up when you get home.
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They're week 4U was a yeah. I'm looking at their posts like
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for our heroes. It's just terrible.
47:31
Daniel, let me let me tell you something.
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If you're look, we love the troops.
47:35
You know what I mean patriotic dude, we we support the troops.
47:40
Let me tell you something. If I were the troops and this is
47:43
how you're supporting me, please don't support me.
47:45
You know what I mean They just these camo and like puke orange
47:50
uniforms. It's just and it's like light
47:53
camo with white numbers. Oh, it's just it's so bad.
47:56
It's it's one of the worst uniforms I've seen.
47:58
And they were look, there were a lot of bad ones.
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We had several nominees in the group chat of worst uniform of
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the year. But by far it goes to you too.
48:06
It's the one that as I'm looking at all the bad uniforms, I'm
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like, there's some that are disappointing.
48:10
You know, as far as like what you like Miami wearing their
48:12
camo. It's like you have an excellent
48:14
uniform and this is just, you know, but it's not as bad as
48:18
this. It just missed the mark worse
48:19
than you did. I think some of these are
48:21
preferences versus like this is just atrocious.
48:25
This, I think the word abomination can be used in this,
48:29
in this scenario. I don't think that's too strong
48:32
necessarily. This is the kind of stuff that
48:35
gets somebody fired, whoever is in charge of this.
48:37
Yeah, yeah. Certainly not calling for
48:39
anyone's livelihood, but perhaps this role and responsibility
48:44
gets removed from their job title.
48:46
Yeah, I hope. So you just start to wonder when
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you look across the league and across the nation and you see
48:53
places that do it so well or that do it at least mediocre,
48:58
how this can still happen. And it's like, who is making is
49:03
this, you know, Sue from accounting?
49:06
And she just like, hey, I think we should do this because we're
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going to support the troops and Oh yeah, should we have the
49:13
darker? No, no, no light camo and then
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this ugly or yeah, no, no, no. So I don't know if they made a
49:20
deal with somebody or there was some sort of branding initiative
49:24
or maybe it came off wrong in the printer, but they ran out
49:27
the tunnel in these things and it was it was terrible if.
49:32
They're a bit more proud, unfortunately.
49:33
They are telling us that they don't want us to watch Group of
49:36
five football, Group of 6 football.
49:39
That's not the screams. That hurts me as a group of 6
49:43
alumni, OK? I don't like that they're
49:46
hurting the sport by wearing these.
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I will say let this be an opportunity to learn.
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Do not do this again and we'll see you next.
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Year, please. We'll see you next year, Daniel.
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Next week we will have our look, what's the state of college
50:01
football? We'll give kind of a state of
50:03
the sport a direct address next week.
50:05
What needs to change? What do we love about the sport?
50:07
That'll be a fun episode again to kind of look back and look
50:10
forward for next season. But like it is the offseason,
50:12
but we're not going anywhere. But we'll be back next week.
50:15
And the week after that, it's signing dates.
50:17
We'll recap all of recruiting, both transfer portal as it wraps
50:20
up, high school as it wraps up. And we'll talk about the new
50:23
players on these new teams. Be sure to follow us at the
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50:28
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That'll do it for this edition of The Extra Point.
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He is Daniel. I am Jacob.
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See ya.