January 10, 2026 • 42 mins
Steve DeSaegher fills in for Mike as the guys break down the Oregon–Indiana CFP Peach Bowl from start to finish. They react to Indiana’s dominant first-half performance and then recap the Hoosiers closing out the game with an emphatic win. College football insider Pete Fiutak joins the show to share his analysis of Indiana’s statement victory and what it means going forward.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Unless you live in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The Jason Show is Steve Desager in from Mike Harmon
tonight and Steve, is it true? Do we have a
final from the Peach Bowl? Do we have a final? S?
I mean I thought we.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Will be a final. Do we have a final?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And then I look at the scoreboard and we're still
mid third quarter. It's ten o'clock Eastern time. We're just
getting to the middle of the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, it is. Uh, it's a long night.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
To paraphrase, it's gonna be a long and bumpy night night.
We have seven minutes left to go in the third quarter. Indiana,
thanks to four touchdown passes for Fernando Mendoza, who is
thirteen out of fourteen tonight for one hundred and fifty yards.
Indiana's on top of Oregon forty two fifteen. They would
be on the doorstep of another score. However, a seventy
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one yard run just got called back for a holding penalty.
So Indiana has the ball deep in their own territory,
and hey, at least we got some positivity for Oregon.
They get a touchdown, they go for two, and now
it's you know, now they've made it a twelve score
game where it was a thirteen score game, so you know,
you know, they're cutting into this little by little.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well, three turnovers for Oregon tonight, and they threw a
pick six on the very first play from scripage tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, not great, Bob.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You're going up against the number one team who's got
Have you seen Indiana play a great defense? And then
we saw the sacks coming all the way up till
half time for the IU defense.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Not good?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
And then you mentioned Mendoza, not just the touchdown passes,
the third down conversions eight of nine for India.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, the best thing is this
will give us plenty of time to break down the
playoff games this weekend in the NFL, because because of
the way the ball, we're not going to be spending
the entire show on like last night's classic game and
the pass interferrets at the end in the back and forth,
this is Yeah, this has been over since maybe maybe
since the first play of the game, maybe since that
pick six.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You can look back and say that was it.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well, it got rolling late first half.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, I guess it was only twenty one to
seven until then.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
That seems like a close game at that point.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, So look, let's deal with Dante Moore first before
we get to Fernanda Mendoza. Right, So more tonight watching Oregon,
sometimes there's a moment and whether it's a whether it's
a quarterback really talented, gets too hyped up, or or
something happens emotionally, they the team just isn't ready and
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he's not ready to meet the moment. And Dante Moore
has made a lot of mistakes tonight. Look, you can
go back and forth. Look, he collides the running back
and the ball winds up coming out, but he throws
the pick six early. He is taking sacks in the
pocket where he has to get rid of the football.
He is having a really bad game, and it just
seems like it seems like Indiana has been one step
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ahead of Oregon the entire way. You know, like this
technically is a semi final game, but this is like
the semifinal game of a youth tournament where oh wow,
the number one seed is there, and this team that
won a couple of games again it oh wow, they're
just getting boat raced here like that. That's what's gone on.
There's not been one moment tonight where I thought, hey,
Oregon is here to meet the moment, whether it's Dante Moore,
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whether it's the rest of the team. The mistakes everything
Indiana wants to do. They're executing defensively on third downs.
This is just you know, this is Indiana. The only
fear I have for them is they're not gonna play
a more perfect game than this. They're taking advantage, they're
forcing mistakes. They might get a bounce against Miami, but
we'll worry about that later on because this is this
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is just an absolute bludgeting by Indiana against.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I thought that it wasn't possible to play a more
perfect game than the Rose Bowl, where they just laid
waste to Alabama on New Year's Day, and yet they're
playing so well tonight. I mentioned still it's third quarter
and they have forty two points against a top five team.
And keep in mind these are conference opponents. Oregon had
them at home on the schedule in October and Indiana
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played a very impressive fourth quarter and won that game.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I feel awful that I picked Oregon to win this.
I feel awful. I feel like I felt like Flaud.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I can't believe I did. I can't I look at
this game. How did I pick Oregon? How did I
do this? I can't believe awful about.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Maybe somebody on the show had Indiana in their pool.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
In the final line, might feel.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So what you have in the whatd you have inn
R Fox Sports Radio pool Indiana and Ohio State?
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, it's correct.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
In Ohio State, I maintained, still has a great defense.
It was the pick six that cost them in their
playoff loss. Yep, it was a difficult and then that
was going to be a thirteen to ten final all
over again when those two met.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Yeah, and now like Texans.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Chargers game, it's got fifteen twelve over all over it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now I think the biggest sobering thing that people have
to think about right now for a second is that, Okay,
the Indiana Hoosiers are gonna win the national championship in football.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
You're gonna say that in foot.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The Indiana Hoosiers are going to win the national championship
in football, not basketball, not another sport. They're good, and
I'm sure they're good in other things too. Now that
they're gonna win, they had absolutely zero zero football tradition,
zero until this beginning of last season. Zero football tradition.
(05:46):
You're going back to, hey, over one hundred years when
Antoine randall El was the quarterback. He was fun, He
made it to the NFL. Thompson finished in the top
three for Heisman Troll. Now back in the eighties, all right, yeah,
in four seconds, I got you to.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The mid eighties with Indiana football.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And their previous Rose Bowl appearance was the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
They had zero football tradition, football accomplishment until two years ago,
and now here they are They're gonna win the national championship.
I don't know that I can wrap my head around that.
I mean, there's there's stories of teams coming out of
nowhere and Cinderella stories and and and top to bottom
Indiana winning the national championship in football. I I really,
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I don't know. There's certain things that still sound weird
to me. And Indiana being this after having again zero,
it's not like they built towards It's not like, well,
there's been a long build.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Kurtz Signette has been there since twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Like you know, if Kirk Farentz at Iowa eventually built
Ohio into a national ball the guy's been there for
twenty years, a great offensive coach.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Eventually you're gonna hit it big zero. They had nothing
until two years ago. I know it something here there.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
They're gonna they have the Heisman Trophy winner, They're gonna
win the national championship, and Indiana football's on the on
top of the world.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I can't get over that.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I can't agree more.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
This is kind of like, well, actually it's greater than
when you say out loud that the Marlins have won
the World Series twice, because what did they do after.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Those World Series sell off?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Did nothing? They were back to being the Marlins again
for long stretches, or even the Giants with Bruce Bochi.
They won the World Series three times. What did they
do in between those series. It's not like they had
a Troy Aikman Dallas Cowboys dynasty where they were threatening
for Super Bowl every year. It wasn't that type of thing.
In college football history. Indiana had the most total losses
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of any program until they hired this coach. It wasn't
until just a few weeks ago that the Indiana program
had ever been ranked number one for one week ever
in the history of the AP Pole. This is unprecedented.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I really just think about that. I mean think about
that India.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Like for all the schools and all the teams that say,
oh it takes so long to rebuild, takes so long
to do it, they did more two years. They did
it in two years. You know, this is going to
be an episode of Pablo Tory finds out. Okay, how
did Indiana do this?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Wet? How did they go from me?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Don't see?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
What did they do? What did they do? What did
they do?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Alabama used to be able to have the four best
running backs all on the same roster and just plow
through them year after year and guys waiting their turn.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
And it's not that way. Anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The transfer thing exists. It's a real thing now that
didn't exist before. And the NIL support is a real
thing now. They picked up a quarterback from Cal who
had started multiple years and was a solid addition and
got better during his Heisman season. It's just been sensational
the coaching job that's been done by Signetti.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now, I do want to say, because there is somebody
I feel really sorry for. Okay, there is. I mean,
we got to present both sides. You think I'm gonna
say Dan Lanning. No, No, there is somebody I feel
really sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I know it's Howard University that was already on their
schedule years in advance for next September.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Hey, what if you know?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I think guys, I think I think our players are
sick the games in nine months. Yeah, there are. They're
till they feel the colds are coming on, so we move.
Might as well cancel that game. Now, let let's just
cancel again. You think I'm gonna say Trinidad Chambliss, who Hey,
a day after a painful Los said, yeah, you can't
come back and play college football anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
No, the guy I feel bad for.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is your Heisman Trophy winner and number one overall pick
in the draft for Nanda Mendoza because he's not coming back.
If there's no no, no, no, no, no, it's not
about Indiana because if we've learned anything tonight outside of
how good Indiana is really and how dominant they are,
it's that Mendoza is the number one pick in the draft.
Dante Moore, if he comes out, is the number two pick.
(09:40):
Maybe he's the number two pick. Maybe tonight, you know,
turns the Jets off. I mean, although you say, I've
seen a lot of throws he made very Jets like already,
a lot of decisions. Yeah, Varied, you'll fit right in
with the Jets already in Green like, I can kind
of squint and look at the TV and go, yeah,
I could see that Dante Moore fumbling, and I.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Saw some of these games he played at UCLA.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I could squint and see for look at the Green
and the Jets jersey. Sure, uh so clearly that that's
how it's going to go, right if there was any debate,
Now that's how it's gonna go. But just think about
this for a second. Here's Fernando Mendoza coming from a
program and an experience that is full of sunshine, lollipops
and rainbows and nothing but success and happiness and a
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magic carpet ride, and everywhere he goes he is universally loved.
You have a moment in time where I mean it's
like Beauty and the Beast when when when Belle is
singing her song in the red little town, she sees
everybody and she's so excited that she's dancing around and singing.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh morning, Belle Morning. So oh, it's it's like a
Disney movie. For gonna We're not gonna be better than
this still has to show up.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
In the form of Mark Davis and the Raiders, because
he's now gonna go from this Indiana football program, which
is the modern day level of excellence and execution and
success and everything good about college football, and he's gonna
go to that train wreck that's the Raiders, and he's
gonna go, hey man, this is not what this is
(11:12):
not what I'm used to. I mean, I know, I
was a cow and you know we didn't do a
lot of winging a cow, but okay, but yeah, I mean, really,
I'm I'm taking a step down going from Indiana to
the Raiders. I'm I'm leveling down now to go to
the Raiders, and suddenly it's gonna be fans are gonna
be mad, and I'm gonna and it's gonna be crazy.
We're not gonna run the team the right way, and
(11:32):
Brady's gonna yell at me and yell h hunt and
give me pizza. This is I don't know, man, I
don't know that. I don't know that I want this.
I'm gonna this is a step down for me.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
You're right in one respect. The people that are running
the Indiana football program have things figured out, and from
the top down, nobody at the Raiders has things figured out.
And if you've seen the offensive line of the Raiders,
actually seen a Raiders game this year, it's in embarrassing
to call them an NFL franchise because you know, I
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know other teams have had injuries and porous offensive lines.
Because these are the actual guys that they wanted to
be their offensive lineman and the assistant that they actually
chose to be their offensive line. It's it's a disaster,
and it's it's the fifth go round of this ever since,
I mean it, the top down, ever since Mark Davis
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has had his hands in the cookie jar and sorry,
dad's not around, and this is actually your team, and
you've got to produce, to say the least, they have
not produced.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, I can't get over.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I mean, he's you talk about a culture shock, he's
going to be in for it's.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Gonna be what what the hell?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Man?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
What the hell is going on around here? This is?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And the thing is you look at Fernana Mendoza and
you know, as goofy as he is and a fun
guy as he is, and you go, man, is that
really gonna fly with the Raiders like that? Is that
the demeanor that that's gonna fly? Like you're gonna suck
all the joy out of him? There, there's gonna be.
I can already see the screen grabs for next season.
Like here's Fernanda Mendoza Indianae coming off the field with
a big smile. Here he is Vegas and a big
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scowl on his face, like they're they're gonna they're gonna
just knock the fun right out of him, man, Like
I don't know, like certain certain quarterbacks, certain attitudes working
in certain places. Right Like Baker Mayfield coming into the
NFL said yeah, we're gonna go I'm gonna go take
over this league and Cleveland, come on.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Get on my back. We're gonna do it. Yeah, I
get that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But here's you know, happy, go Lucky and goofy, Fernando Mendoza,
who's so much fun. He's going to a team that's
an absolute tire fire. I don't know. That's that's a
bad combo, man. Not that the Jets is any bargain either,
but I mean, but that's that's a that's a really
bad come Now.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
With Caleb Williams stepped in as number one pick and
was running for his life and just flat running with
the old regime in Chicago and was sacked almost seventy
times in an NFL season, it makes you look up. Okay,
the record for being sacked one guy the most times
in an NFL season, it's seventy six and the caveat
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is David Carr was on a literal expansion team. It
was a roster of cast offs when the Houston Texans
began in two thousand and two. I think that this
has the makings of a quarterback getting sacked sixty seventy
times for a full season if and when he goes
to the Raiders, which is too bad because they have
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the running back, they have the tight end. They might
even have the quarterback if they draft him. But if
you can't protect the quarterback, I mean, look what the
offensive line has been with the Chargers. I know Harbaugh
has gotten them into the postseason. I'm not expecting a
run because they can't block anybody. I mean, this quarterback,
talented as he is, has been sacked over fifty times
this year.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
He's already been sacked eight times with the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I don't know if you know that or not. They've
already put that out there. Men, those are the Raiders.
Eight sacks.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Hasn't even played a full game.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I thought you're eyna say a Charger game hasn't even
started Sunday night.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
He's already been said. He's already been said.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So this is where we sit right now.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Indiana has been putting on a clinic, but Oregon has
not quit. They are driving with the ball right now.
They just Indiana into a punt situation. So they have
it just past midfield forty two point fifteen. Look they
get in the end zone. Suddenly it's a three score
game going to the fourth quarter. Yeah, I'm trying. I'm
trying to right.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
They need to do what the Seahawks did in that
huge comeback against the Rams. You remember on the Thursday
night game, is they normally needed three incredible touchdowns. They
had to have three two point conversions on top of it.
It had to go eight sixteen twenty four. If you
know what I mean, this is they've already got the
one right the last touchdown they tacked down a two
point conversion. It's that that they need against you know,
(15:34):
I repeat, a great defense ain't gonna happen two minutes
left third quarter.
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you were getting thirty five points, congratulations, you cash that
ticket and anything less you weren't cashing. Indiana fifty six
to twenty two, perfect everywhere tonight, perfect offensively for Nana Mendoza,
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five touchdowns. Indiana ran for two touchdowns in one hundred
and eighty five yards, they caused three turnovers. Everything you
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Speaker 6 (17:59):
I think it might be someone out there is better
than I am, because I still think Oregon's gonna win
with the out game three hundred and seventy eight yards
to three sixty three. And you know, it's like, seriously,
I mean, that was just a horrific performance. I mean,
I don't know what kind of vulcan mind meld, whatever
it is thing that they that Indiana has over teams.
(18:21):
But Oregon just did not look good. I mean they
looked scared, they look unsure, and they just did not
play a good game.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I felt like watching this game, look as good as
Mendoza was is good. Everywhere Indiana seemed to be one
step ahead. They seem to be, you know, especially defensively
stopping them on third down. They seem to be at
a different level mentally, a different level of focus. It's
it's almost like watching a youth sports game where hey,
these two teams make it to the championship and one
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is the big club team that's so good, and the
other one just you know, wins a couple of games
how to forfeit, and you get to that champion will go, oh, yeah,
one team is really really good.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Other team does deserve to be on the field.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
It's crazy, though, Organ's kind of better. I mean, they've
got a whole lot more talent. I mean it just
but man, Indiana just does not make mistakes. And like
the crazy part about it, you could just like the
first play, pick six, it was just like all right,
and yeah, you just don't have it. Even even with
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a fantastic time it was seven to seven, they marched
pretty easily. I don't understand the game plan on either side.
For Oregon. I get it, their running backs were hurt,
but Dante morri is still the number two, maybe even
the one picking the drafts at the end of the day,
don't you let him like fling it fifty times and
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say you're the You've got to be the best player
on the field here. And he did it early on.
But then you had the you know, the running back fumble,
and you had this weird other fumble. You can't make
mistakes against Indiana because they just pounced on everything.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
It was complete domination at the Rose Bowl. And I
assume some people said, I'm not sure that's repeatable.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
It was so good. It was kind of repeated tonight,
wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yeah. I mean, first of all, the domination the Rosebuls, Oh,
that wasn't very good. I mean, Oregon's good. They just
this was just a weird I mean, they held it.
This is the second time this might I think this
might be this out of Indiana's season that I get.
Oregon has I think the two best yardage defensive games
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for Indiana. I think they both. I think they was
the Pennas State Nowork first organ game were tied with
the fewest amount of yards by Indiana, So they did
run up but kind of lost in this because they
were winning so big because they had such short fields.
But they did get you knocked off the field a
couple of times. There were chances there, but there was
a one moment where you could kind of tell there
(20:51):
was a little bit of life, Like eighteen minutes to go,
and you said, you know what if they score here
and somehow three and out and get another tie down fast.
I don't think they're gonna win, but maybe they would
make it interesting. What do they do three straight runs
and work the clock and Oregon that in the then
of the third quarter went out, they went with that
(21:12):
weird pitch to the outside, like they've never seen Indiana
play defense before. I know what they do. Uh. It
was just it was just a bad overall performance by Oregon.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, yeah, Pete, because that's what I like on fourth
and one is to give the ball to a guy
five yards behind the line of scrimmage, because that's all
it's going to get a first.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Out against like Indiana. That team is never going to
leave their lanes. It's like, do you not watch this team?
I mean, that's that's what you don't do. You power
on Indiana, That's how you beat them potentially. But no,
I'm saying it at Oregon organ organ. Indiana's awesome. I
mean they're playing great. I mean just I I love
(21:50):
watching their receivers run route. I mean, Becker and sarat
are chets flawless. I mean the defense did a great job,
and yeah it didn't it wasn't a plus, But the
running game wasn't that bad for Oregon. The fifth string
running back that they flew out there was actually pretty good.
He wasn't the problem. But it was just like like
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Indiana beat them right out of the gate. I mean,
they just have this weird dominance thing happening that when
they show up and again pick six on the first play,
it's like you don't recover.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
From that with the cloud.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
This was like an Indiana home game in Atlanta tonight.
The final is going to be against Miami in Miami.
Is that going to make a difference on the field
the Hurricanes and the home support?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I don't know if. I mean, it depends on what
home support there might be. I mean, first of all,
the tickets for the sing are insane. I mean, it's
given the building, they're already talking it's like thirty eight
hundred and to get any real seat in the middle there,
you're ten grand already. So I mean everybody in the
Indiana fan ever, is going to go to this and
Miami people are going to go to this as well.
(22:56):
Totally dating myself here. If I could do that, I
wouldn't be here. But nineteen eighty three Nebraska was the
greatest team of all time. It was just a formality.
Blah blah blah. Bernie Cosar and the Miami Hurricanes pull
off the winningness in Miami in Miami exactly. You know,
I've just throw that out there, just as you know,
reference of something. But I don't think it's gonna happen.
(23:17):
You can't come out and play scared against this team.
And you can tell right out of the gates that
Oregon looked like a team that didn't quite thing it
could think it could win. I still think my Indiana
people are gonna overrun Miami over in the stadium there.
But Miami had better come with a big time attitude
from the start that they can't just play scared like
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Orgon just did.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, here's the thing, Pete, is that like I look
at this game and I give Miami a little bit
more of a chance. Well, look if this, if this
Indiana team shows up, it doesn't matter who plays for Indiana.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It makes no difference who plays for Miami.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
They could have Kozar and Irvin and Willis mcgae, it
doesn't matter, but they're gonna get.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
See, I'm not gonna go that far. That was a
pretty good just as some pretty good teams back there.
With those you got some Hall of Fame talents down there.
So yeah, yeah, I think what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But here's the thing is that they're gonna Indiana is
gonna get a little bit of a bounce from this
game to the next game. And Miami is solid everywhere.
Their defense is fast, it's physical, and their style of
football where every possession is a thirteen play, sixty five
yard drive that takes nine minutes off the clock like that,
Like that, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The right far.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I think that's the right style to try to combat
this Indiana team that you want to keep Mendoza on
the bench and be able to, you know, control the
football a bit. Like I give Miami more than a
puncher's chance because they're solid. It's not like you can
do one thing and stop them. Like they're solid, they're fast,
they're gonna hit their physical They're gonna punch Indiana in
the mouth.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
So yeah, I'm looking forward.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I look at that and see that's a much better
matchup for this than Oregon turned out to be.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
For sure.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
They basically take everything you just said and just apply
that to Oregon, And that's kind of what I thought
was going to happen tonight. Look, but you're right, though,
I mean, the talent on Miami's lines. I mean, they've
got an NFL offensive line and they just need to
bash away from the starts. The pass rushers that weren't
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there against Ole miss those They've got some top ten
overall pick pass rushers. They've got the guys the defense.
You know, Tony is one of the best players probably
on match field. They're going to get to Mendoza. They
have ten days to kind of figure out how to
do this. So you're right, I mean, they've got all
the things there. But man, is Carson Beck going to
be the Carson Beck that we've seen in the last
(25:38):
couple of weeks? Is he going to be the SMU
Louisville Carson Beck where those two picks and all of
a sudden game over Indiana has a funky way of
making making teams do that. But you're right, I like
this Miami team. I've said from the start that this
is a team that could make a deep run and
could win the national title. And you know again, you
know they play sharp if they played the thing I mean,
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Miami played the like C plus game. They totally dominated
Old Miss and yet it came down to the last
play it was like they made their own mistakes. They
don't make those mistakes. They blow out the rebels and
if they can just play sharper, then that team can
absolutely hang with Indiana.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Miami's defense has had so many good games. They only
give up fourteen points a game. Indiana was only allowing
ten points a game for the full season going into tonight.
Do you see this as more than just a fourteen
to ten type of game though?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
The final It depends on how like you guys were
alluding to it, how much do you get the long
sustained drives where you know you Mendoza take switch there,
it's given you're gonna want to get the ball out
of his hand in a hurry on the quick shots
because he does not want Ruben Bain jumping out his
head half the game.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
So it's do they just go ding ding ding ding
DNK down the field or you know, in Miami City,
same thing do they just landed offensive. I mean, look,
it's Old Miss. I mean, thank goodness Old Miss didn't
because Indiana would have won that game nine hundred and
fourteen to two. I mean it almost did. You wouldn't
have a chance against Indiana. That defensive front was getting gouged,
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and Miami, as good as it is, is not going
to be able to pile drive its way like it
did against the Rebels.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Pete Futech, College Footballnews dot Com insider, our guest here
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, flip side here Fernanda
Mendoza with the game he had tonight. Congratulations, you're the
number one pick in the draft. You're headed to the
Las Vegas Raiders, which I don't know if that's a victory,
but that's happening. Do you see anything different for the
future of Dante Moore after tonight's game, whether it is
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thinking more about going back to school, maybe the Jets
aren't going to take him at number two? What did
this kind of game? What impact did this kind of
game have on more?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I you know what, it shouldn't have any Like, if
you're good enough to play in the league, go to
the league, like okay, then it was a bad night,
Well he's gonna have good nights. He's going to be
I mean, if he's only twenty and I get it,
it's only his twenty first star and all that, but
if he's at the talent and I still kind of
think once the workouts start to kick it, everyone's gonna
love Mendoza because he's everything you want in the franchise quarterback.
(28:08):
You know, the personality, you know, the the accuracy, everything
you want in an NFL quarterback. But when Dante Moore
gets into a Pro Day and he lets a grip,
there's gonna be some people out there gonna be like, yeah,
Mendoza is really good, but wow, this guy, I mean,
he's just you got better tools, more talent. So at
the very least, let's say he's that too. Let's say
(28:29):
he's top five. He still go to the league. He's
the number two quarterback off the board of Mendoza's one
for lad So you know, what are you going to do?
It's a Bill Parcells thing. If you want to play
in the NFL, go to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
As far as the Big Ten Conference, we could have
three separate teams three years.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
In a row winning the national title. What does that
say about the Big Ten?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Or is it just Indiana happened to have its best
year ever and Michigan just happened to have this one
supreme year.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Is to say something as a whole about the league.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
It says that they're just better. I mean, I've been
screaming this for a couple of years. They have more money, like,
they have better deals. They have now of course the
Athletic Department of Texas and some of these other places,
they're just monsters and they're bigger than anybody else. But
in terms of the media rights deals, in terms of
the market share, I mean, you know, think of the
what are the big markets in the SEC Atlanta, Okay,
(29:24):
you know, Dallas, Yeah, I yes, sure, Houston with Texas,
A and m absolutely, you know, but look what you've
got with you know, with the Big Ten. You've got
whatever New York is for a market. You've got Chicago,
You've got La, You've got all these big markets that
and they just have the better deals and a lot
more dough. And now it's going to get even weirder
(29:44):
when you've got people like Mark Cuban who are going
to help out the cause with Indiana and they just
have the dough to keep this thing going. So it's
it's a blip. I mean, next year the SEC could
go nine and zero in the bowls and you know,
this is all just sort of a quirky thing. Look,
if they want to kick or puts it to the up,
they lose, you know there, but for you know, a
misplay by you know, Deo Pavia late and maybe Vanderbilt win.
(30:08):
So this is all kind of quirky. You know, Missouri
came down to the last play. I mean, you know,
everyone's dunking on the SEC. But it wasn't that bad. However,
the apology excuses to her by the SEC is insane.
You can't be the it just means more conference and
then be like, wow, these guys weren't really trying and.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So lastly, I know, look we got ten days so
the National champiship game. But right now we've just we've
talked to the last two nights. You've seen both of
these teams play. Give me your prediction. Right now we
see the national title game Indiana Miami.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
What do you think I'm getting missing on Indiana? I
mean I picked them to beat Alabama, but I thought
I'll know I would show up. And like I said,
I thought the Oregon was going to show up in this.
I'm not going to do that again. Seven and a
half is the early line. That seems like a lot
for this Miami team. But again, you know, how can
you not? You know, this team is still folks. It
doesn't seek phase by anything. And again, well it might
(31:03):
be in Miami, that thing's going to be like seventy percent.
Who's your fans? So I got to pick Indiana obviously
because they're just playing that well right now. And look,
you mentioned the Big Ten before, like the least eight years,
there was a run of eighteen in nineteen years where
SEC team was in the was in the national championship.
The old of Ohio State, Oregon gave him the first
(31:24):
college football Playoffs championship was the one blip. Now you
got three straight, like you said, without an SEC team
in it, it's lonely for them.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
He's on Twitter at Pete Futech. That is at Petefutech
college footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping to everything
college football.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Pete is always by the appreciated.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We'll talk to you next week and we'll talk portal
in preview the national title game.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Absolutely, guys are going.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
All right, there goes be future in college football.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
That will be the same conversation.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Somebody at halftime of the National title game will announce
they're going in the portal.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, it'll be arch Manning will be going into the
portal at halftime of the game, like a rod opting
out of his contract in the middle of the World Series.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I was a little surprised when I heard during the
broadcast tonight there's a give to so and so.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
You know he's in the portal. Wait, wait a minute,
he's playing right now.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
He's actually gotten the football and has run into the
portal like it's Avengers and has opened the portal.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Running through that you just disappear. Well, he's going he's
in the portal.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
He's like that dumb Superman movie. They're into some new
universe here.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So seven and a half points is your early line
for Indiana and Miami.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Why are we seeing Indiana Miami?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Steve disager as the details on what the Hoosiers just
did to the Ducks and more with what's trending right.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Now, they wipe the floor with him. I think that
is the correct answer. I'll take Hoosiers for two hundred Alex. Yeah,
it's dominance, complete dominance for the number one team in
the land. Indiana fifty six twenty two over the Oregon Ducks,
and in league play they had won at Oregon back
in October, getting ten points in the last six and
a half minutes to win by ten tonight in front of,
(33:03):
to say the least, a pro Hoosier crowd showing up
in Atlanta. This semi final goes to Indiana as Fernando Mendoza,
the Heisman Trophy winner, throws five touchdown passes. He was
seventeen of twenty for one hundred and seventy seven yards.
And yes, they are favorites for the national title game
against Miami in Miami on Monday the nineteenth to the
(33:24):
NBA Phoenix held on for victory over the next tonight,
one twelve to one oh seven thirty one points for
Devin Booker, twenty seven for Dylan Brooks, twenty seven for
Jalen Brunson in the defeat. So we have three late
games in progress.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
In the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Halftime in La, Bucks leading the Lakers sixty one fifty
two mid third quarter Rockets only a head at Portland
seventy two to seventy and their late third quarter at
Golden State Warriors are only leading Sacramento eighty six eighty four. Earlier,
OKC was down twenty one and still won its game
at Menphis one seventeen one sixteen and Shay Kiljos Alexander
(34:03):
did not play due to a sprained ankle and still
OKSE goes to thirty two and seven wins on the
road for the Clippers in Atlanta, for New Orleans and Philadelphia.
Boston won at home, beating Toronto one twenty five, one
to seventeen.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
RJ.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Barrett of the Raptors left with an ankle injury. Anthony
Davis of the MAVs could miss a few months if
surgery is required on his left hand.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
He has ligament damage.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
College basketball, USC was an overtime winner at Minnesota seventy
to sixty nine, just three NHL games. The late contest
is in the final minute at Utah, the Mammoth leading
four to two over the Blues. The Winnipeg won at
home five to one against La Washington, a five to
one winner at Chicago. Brooks Koepka applied for reinstatement to
the PGA Tour. He just left Live Golf after well,
(34:49):
still having one year left on his contract, wanting to
stay closer to home.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
The Jason Smith Show is Steve Desager in for Mike Harmon.
Now we have said a lot about in Dana head
coach Kurt Signetti, who said, listen, I am happy at times,
even though I never smile. Wait till you hear what
Signetti had to say right after Indiana pasted Oregon to
go to.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
The National Championship.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I stopt that.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
No no, no, no, no, no no, because I know
what he said. He didn't say that. Prove it right now,
he didn't say. He didn't say.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Waitill you hear what he had to say. You're gonna
hear it next right here. Jason Smith, Steve Desager, this
is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Explain it to me.
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Speaker 3 (35:53):
That is not John Cena We just watched.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Indiana put a clinic on against Oregon. Indiana played great,
Oregon did not fifty six twenty two. So now Indiana
and Miami into the National Championship game on the nineteenth,
and look, there's a lot of great things and some
we're gonna make a big, bold prediction, built, big, big
hot take coming up in about ten minutes on Indiana
(36:19):
after winning this game tonight. But so much attention on
Kurt Signetti in the job he's done. Is Indiana's head coach,
and look getting the contract extension in just in two years.
They have a dynasty in Indiana. It's insane. And he
had a big comment yesterday Steve on the day before
the game where he said, look, you know I'm happy
at times. You know, he's never happy on the sideline.
(36:41):
He's always upset. I think it was I think it
was performance art in the fourth quarter, like that he's
scowling and mad and yelling after they block a punt
when they're up forty two thirteen they have the ball
in the red zone, Like, Okay, you don't need to
be scout, you don't need to be smiling and suddenly
going crazy. You don't need to dance around the field
like you're Robert Sola after a sack. But I mean,
(37:02):
come on, man, let's let's a little bit let you.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You don't need to be sitting there going okay. So
I think a little bit of performance art. But there were.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Times tonight where it seemed like a smile was coming
to the face, and the way he erased it was
with not quite scowl, but kind of a skew. Let's
say the lips were going a skew to one side,
like a somewhat disappointed look. And that's how he rid
himself of the thoughts of a smile during a game.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Do you think he had like a there was a
like he had an ear piece in where someone was
telling it to Hey, cameras on your cameras, right, can't smark.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Gotta look mad, gotta look bad.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I gotta be always coaching, always coaching, Always go abc,
always be coaching.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
There is no very good.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
There is no smirking at what Mendoza has done in
these two playoff games for Indiana, because he still has
more touchdown passes than incompletions thrown in two playoff games
combined eight tds, including the five tonight five incompletions total
in playing Alabama and Oregon.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
So you would think, Okay, Kurt Signetti's gonna show up
and give his postgame press conversation. Well, there's some things
we gotta work on. Yeah, yeah, a game he played
almost Brotta. I think he's gotta work out. We got
a really tough game coming up. However, we did not
get that from Kurt Signetti. We got what is going
to be a SoundBite. I'm sure we play on this
show for the next year plus. Tight Shirt's gonna hear it.
(38:28):
He's gonna love it. This is Signetti off the field
doing an interview with ESPN. He's asked about thinking about
Miami the National Championship, and this is Kurt Signetti's response,
I'm really.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Not thinking about the next game.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
I'm bringing about cracking open up beer.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Congrats and joy that beer, coach.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I mean, what do you say after that? That's great, coach,
But one more question. I just said, I want to
go get a beer because we just won the semi final.
We're going to play I'm going to get a beer
right now. Don't ask me any more questions.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
So he's in the heartland of America. He never wears
the blue collar, but this is gonna make him even
more beloved to the fan base.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Oh yeah, that's so on brand for Kurtzignetti. Yeah, we
just won. I'm gonna go have a.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Beer and then I'm gonna get mad at my team
and find a way to motivate them to go play
against Miami.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
And once he turns eighty years old, he'll become the
Colts coach and he'll stay in stay. I can see
how all of this is going.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I don't know, or does he win the national title
and then get the job right away, like if he wins,
if he if he beats Miami, does suddenly the Colts go, hey, yeah,
look that looks Shanstein been great.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, now you're gone.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I think he's gonna wait until Philip Rivers turned sixty
and then back as he joins the Colts and stations.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Uh kind of like his quarterback offensive coordinator.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
He could do both, actually literally do both. He could
call his own plays. We could go old school NFL
on that.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Sure, But I dig that.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I'm thinking about cracking open a beer, like like like
there's somebody in the locker room whose job it is,
And if we win this game. You have a beer
ready for coach when he comes out. Okay, you just
you you open it and you hand it to him,
and it's it's not gonna be like Luca, where someone's
gonna come take it away from him.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
No, you hand him that beer and you give that
beard to coach. You give him five minutes to enjoy
this game or.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
This game was so lopsided he actually had time on
the sidelines during the game to think about such thing.
It was forty two to seven in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
We blocked that putt hey, go grab me that Corse light.
It's it. Just go into the into the locker room.
It's hit my under the gator rainer.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, it's right at the bottom right there. Just pull
it out, Just bring it out to me. Okay, yeah,
but put put it in a koozy so nobody knows,
all right, so nobody could tell.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
I don't know if you saw the sixty minutes interview
with Signetti and about the Indiana program in general, and
they even got Mellencamp in there. I mean, it was
just it was if you are a neutral fan of
the sport of football, and even not necessarily the Big
ten or college football. It was attractive. It's such a
good story, and it's getting better by the round. And
(41:07):
it's not hyperbole when these network guys can continually say
this is the greatest college football story of my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah, I mean, it's so unlikely. It's I mean, I
think everybody needs a beer after that. I need a
beer after what we're gonna say about Indiana coming up next,
I'm gonna need a beer and I get two the
show with you undefeated Still it's I mean, you're already
seeing I'm seeing trend on Twitter twenty twenty, Alabama twenty nineteen, LSU.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
You know, two of the best.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
College football teams individually of the last you know, a
couple of.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Decades in Miami yet about what two thousand and three
or two or four or somewhere around there, they had
a phenomenal roster.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I mean, this is this is incredible. This is the
level of football we're talking about Indiana at. So yeah,
I can see where Kurtzignetti needs a beer. I can
see where that happens right there. Exit out about a
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Unless you live in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The Jason Show is Steve Desager in from Mike Harmon
tonight and Steve, is it true? Do we have a
final from the Peach Bowl? Do we have a final? S?
I mean I thought we.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Will be a final. Do we have a final?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And then I look at the scoreboard and we're still
mid third quarter. It's ten o'clock Eastern time. We're just
getting to the middle of the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, it is. Uh, it's a long night.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
To paraphrase, it's gonna be a long and bumpy night night.
We have seven minutes left to go in the third quarter. Indiana,
thanks to four touchdown passes for Fernando Mendoza, who is
thirteen out of fourteen tonight for one hundred and fifty yards.
Indiana's on top of Oregon forty two fifteen. They would
be on the doorstep of another score. However, a seventy
(01:22):
one yard run just got called back for a holding penalty.
So Indiana has the ball deep in their own territory,
and hey, at least we got some positivity for Oregon.
They get a touchdown, they go for two, and now
it's you know, now they've made it a twelve score
game where it was a thirteen score game, so you know,
you know, they're cutting into this little by little.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well, three turnovers for Oregon tonight, and they threw a
pick six on the very first play from scripage tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, not great, Bob.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You're going up against the number one team who's got
Have you seen Indiana play a great defense? And then
we saw the sacks coming all the way up till
half time for the IU defense.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Not good?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
And then you mentioned Mendoza, not just the touchdown passes,
the third down conversions eight of nine for India.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, the best thing is this
will give us plenty of time to break down the
playoff games this weekend in the NFL, because because of
the way the ball, we're not going to be spending
the entire show on like last night's classic game and
the pass interferrets at the end in the back and forth,
this is Yeah, this has been over since maybe maybe
since the first play of the game, maybe since that
pick six.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You can look back and say that was it.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well, it got rolling late first half.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, I guess it was only twenty one to
seven until then.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
That seems like a close game at that point.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, So look, let's deal with Dante Moore first before
we get to Fernanda Mendoza. Right, So more tonight watching Oregon,
sometimes there's a moment and whether it's a whether it's
a quarterback really talented, gets too hyped up, or or
something happens emotionally, they the team just isn't ready and
(03:00):
he's not ready to meet the moment. And Dante Moore
has made a lot of mistakes tonight. Look, you can
go back and forth. Look, he collides the running back
and the ball winds up coming out, but he throws
the pick six early. He is taking sacks in the
pocket where he has to get rid of the football.
He is having a really bad game, and it just
seems like it seems like Indiana has been one step
(03:20):
ahead of Oregon the entire way. You know, like this
technically is a semi final game, but this is like
the semifinal game of a youth tournament where oh wow,
the number one seed is there, and this team that
won a couple of games again it oh wow, they're
just getting boat raced here like that. That's what's gone on.
There's not been one moment tonight where I thought, hey,
Oregon is here to meet the moment, whether it's Dante Moore,
(03:41):
whether it's the rest of the team. The mistakes everything
Indiana wants to do. They're executing defensively on third downs.
This is just you know, this is Indiana. The only
fear I have for them is they're not gonna play
a more perfect game than this. They're taking advantage, they're
forcing mistakes. They might get a bounce against Miami, but
we'll worry about that later on because this is this
(04:01):
is just an absolute bludgeting by Indiana against.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I thought that it wasn't possible to play a more
perfect game than the Rose Bowl, where they just laid
waste to Alabama on New Year's Day, and yet they're
playing so well tonight. I mentioned still it's third quarter
and they have forty two points against a top five team.
And keep in mind these are conference opponents. Oregon had
them at home on the schedule in October and Indiana
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played a very impressive fourth quarter and won that game.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I feel awful that I picked Oregon to win this.
I feel awful. I feel like I felt like Flaud.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I can't believe I did. I can't I look at
this game. How did I pick Oregon? How did I
do this? I can't believe awful about.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Maybe somebody on the show had Indiana in their pool.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
In the final line, might feel.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So what you have in the whatd you have inn
R Fox Sports Radio pool Indiana and Ohio State?
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, it's correct.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
In Ohio State, I maintained, still has a great defense.
It was the pick six that cost them in their
playoff loss. Yep, it was a difficult and then that
was going to be a thirteen to ten final all
over again when those two met.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Yeah, and now like Texans.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Chargers game, it's got fifteen twelve over all over it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now I think the biggest sobering thing that people have
to think about right now for a second is that, Okay,
the Indiana Hoosiers are gonna win the national championship in football.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
You're gonna say that in foot.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The Indiana Hoosiers are going to win the national championship
in football, not basketball, not another sport. They're good, and
I'm sure they're good in other things too. Now that
they're gonna win, they had absolutely zero zero football tradition,
zero until this beginning of last season. Zero football tradition.
(05:46):
You're going back to, hey, over one hundred years when
Antoine randall El was the quarterback. He was fun, He
made it to the NFL. Thompson finished in the top
three for Heisman Troll. Now back in the eighties, all right, yeah,
in four seconds, I got you to.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The mid eighties with Indiana football.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And their previous Rose Bowl appearance was the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
They had zero football tradition, football accomplishment until two years ago,
and now here they are They're gonna win the national championship.
I don't know that I can wrap my head around that.
I mean, there's there's stories of teams coming out of
nowhere and Cinderella stories and and and top to bottom
Indiana winning the national championship in football. I I really,
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I don't know. There's certain things that still sound weird
to me. And Indiana being this after having again zero,
it's not like they built towards It's not like, well,
there's been a long build.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Kurtz Signette has been there since twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Like you know, if Kirk Farentz at Iowa eventually built
Ohio into a national ball the guy's been there for
twenty years, a great offensive coach.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Eventually you're gonna hit it big zero. They had nothing
until two years ago. I know it something here there.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
They're gonna they have the Heisman Trophy winner, They're gonna
win the national championship, and Indiana football's on the on
top of the world.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I can't get over that.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I can't agree more.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
This is kind of like, well, actually it's greater than
when you say out loud that the Marlins have won
the World Series twice, because what did they do after.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Those World Series sell off?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Did nothing? They were back to being the Marlins again
for long stretches, or even the Giants with Bruce Bochi.
They won the World Series three times. What did they
do in between those series. It's not like they had
a Troy Aikman Dallas Cowboys dynasty where they were threatening
for Super Bowl every year. It wasn't that type of thing.
In college football history. Indiana had the most total losses
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of any program until they hired this coach. It wasn't
until just a few weeks ago that the Indiana program
had ever been ranked number one for one week ever
in the history of the AP Pole. This is unprecedented.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I really just think about that. I mean think about
that India.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Like for all the schools and all the teams that say,
oh it takes so long to rebuild, takes so long
to do it, they did more two years. They did
it in two years. You know, this is going to
be an episode of Pablo Tory finds out. Okay, how
did Indiana do this?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Wet? How did they go from me?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Don't see?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
What did they do? What did they do? What did
they do?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Alabama used to be able to have the four best
running backs all on the same roster and just plow
through them year after year and guys waiting their turn.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
And it's not that way. Anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The transfer thing exists. It's a real thing now that
didn't exist before. And the NIL support is a real
thing now. They picked up a quarterback from Cal who
had started multiple years and was a solid addition and
got better during his Heisman season. It's just been sensational
the coaching job that's been done by Signetti.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now, I do want to say, because there is somebody
I feel really sorry for. Okay, there is. I mean,
we got to present both sides. You think I'm gonna
say Dan Lanning. No, No, there is somebody I feel
really sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I know it's Howard University that was already on their
schedule years in advance for next September.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Hey, what if you know?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I think guys, I think I think our players are
sick the games in nine months. Yeah, there are. They're
till they feel the colds are coming on, so we move.
Might as well cancel that game. Now, let let's just
cancel again. You think I'm gonna say Trinidad Chambliss, who Hey,
a day after a painful Los said, yeah, you can't
come back and play college football anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
No, the guy I feel bad for.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is your Heisman Trophy winner and number one overall pick
in the draft for Nanda Mendoza because he's not coming back.
If there's no no, no, no, no, no, it's not
about Indiana because if we've learned anything tonight outside of
how good Indiana is really and how dominant they are,
it's that Mendoza is the number one pick in the draft.
Dante Moore, if he comes out, is the number two pick.
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Maybe he's the number two pick. Maybe tonight, you know,
turns the Jets off. I mean, although you say, I've
seen a lot of throws he made very Jets like already,
a lot of decisions. Yeah, Varied, you'll fit right in
with the Jets already in Green like, I can kind
of squint and look at the TV and go, yeah,
I could see that Dante Moore fumbling, and I.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Saw some of these games he played at UCLA.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I could squint and see for look at the Green
and the Jets jersey. Sure, uh so clearly that that's
how it's going to go, right if there was any debate,
Now that's how it's gonna go. But just think about
this for a second. Here's Fernando Mendoza coming from a
program and an experience that is full of sunshine, lollipops
and rainbows and nothing but success and happiness and a
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magic carpet ride, and everywhere he goes he is universally loved.
You have a moment in time where I mean it's
like Beauty and the Beast when when when Belle is
singing her song in the red little town, she sees
everybody and she's so excited that she's dancing around and singing.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh morning, Belle Morning. So oh, it's it's like a
Disney movie. For gonna We're not gonna be better than
this still has to show up.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
In the form of Mark Davis and the Raiders, because
he's now gonna go from this Indiana football program, which
is the modern day level of excellence and execution and
success and everything good about college football, and he's gonna
go to that train wreck that's the Raiders, and he's
gonna go, hey man, this is not what this is
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not what I'm used to. I mean, I know, I
was a cow and you know we didn't do a
lot of winging a cow, but okay, but yeah, I mean, really,
I'm I'm taking a step down going from Indiana to
the Raiders. I'm I'm leveling down now to go to
the Raiders, and suddenly it's gonna be fans are gonna
be mad, and I'm gonna and it's gonna be crazy.
We're not gonna run the team the right way, and
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Brady's gonna yell at me and yell h hunt and
give me pizza. This is I don't know, man, I
don't know that. I don't know that I want this.
I'm gonna this is a step down for me.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
You're right in one respect. The people that are running
the Indiana football program have things figured out, and from
the top down, nobody at the Raiders has things figured out.
And if you've seen the offensive line of the Raiders,
actually seen a Raiders game this year, it's in embarrassing
to call them an NFL franchise because you know, I
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know other teams have had injuries and porous offensive lines.
Because these are the actual guys that they wanted to
be their offensive lineman and the assistant that they actually
chose to be their offensive line. It's it's a disaster,
and it's it's the fifth go round of this ever since,
I mean it, the top down, ever since Mark Davis
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has had his hands in the cookie jar and sorry,
dad's not around, and this is actually your team, and
you've got to produce, to say the least, they have
not produced.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, I can't get over.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I mean, he's you talk about a culture shock, he's
going to be in for it's.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Gonna be what what the hell?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Man?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
What the hell is going on around here? This is?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And the thing is you look at Fernana Mendoza and
you know, as goofy as he is and a fun
guy as he is, and you go, man, is that
really gonna fly with the Raiders like that? Is that
the demeanor that that's gonna fly? Like you're gonna suck
all the joy out of him? There, there's gonna be.
I can already see the screen grabs for next season.
Like here's Fernanda Mendoza Indianae coming off the field with
a big smile. Here he is Vegas and a big
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scowl on his face, like they're they're gonna they're gonna
just knock the fun right out of him, man, Like
I don't know, like certain certain quarterbacks, certain attitudes working
in certain places. Right Like Baker Mayfield coming into the
NFL said yeah, we're gonna go I'm gonna go take
over this league and Cleveland, come on.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Get on my back. We're gonna do it. Yeah, I
get that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But here's you know, happy, go Lucky and goofy, Fernando Mendoza,
who's so much fun. He's going to a team that's
an absolute tire fire. I don't know. That's that's a
bad combo, man. Not that the Jets is any bargain either,
but I mean, but that's that's a that's a really
bad come Now.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
With Caleb Williams stepped in as number one pick and
was running for his life and just flat running with
the old regime in Chicago and was sacked almost seventy
times in an NFL season, it makes you look up. Okay,
the record for being sacked one guy the most times
in an NFL season, it's seventy six and the caveat
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is David Carr was on a literal expansion team. It
was a roster of cast offs when the Houston Texans
began in two thousand and two. I think that this
has the makings of a quarterback getting sacked sixty seventy
times for a full season if and when he goes
to the Raiders, which is too bad because they have
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the running back, they have the tight end. They might
even have the quarterback if they draft him. But if
you can't protect the quarterback, I mean, look what the
offensive line has been with the Chargers. I know Harbaugh
has gotten them into the postseason. I'm not expecting a
run because they can't block anybody. I mean, this quarterback,
talented as he is, has been sacked over fifty times
this year.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
He's already been sacked eight times with the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I don't know if you know that or not. They've
already put that out there. Men, those are the Raiders.
Eight sacks.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Hasn't even played a full game.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I thought you're eyna say a Charger game hasn't even
started Sunday night.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
He's already been said. He's already been said.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So this is where we sit right now.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Indiana has been putting on a clinic, but Oregon has
not quit. They are driving with the ball right now.
They just Indiana into a punt situation. So they have
it just past midfield forty two point fifteen. Look they
get in the end zone. Suddenly it's a three score
game going to the fourth quarter. Yeah, I'm trying. I'm
trying to right.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
They need to do what the Seahawks did in that
huge comeback against the Rams. You remember on the Thursday
night game, is they normally needed three incredible touchdowns. They
had to have three two point conversions on top of it.
It had to go eight sixteen twenty four. If you
know what I mean, this is they've already got the
one right the last touchdown they tacked down a two
point conversion. It's that that they need against you know,
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I repeat, a great defense ain't gonna happen two minutes
left third quarter.
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in for Mike Harmon. Where if you had Oregon and
you were getting thirty five points, congratulations, you cash that
ticket and anything less you weren't cashing. Indiana fifty six
to twenty two, perfect everywhere tonight, perfect offensively for Nana Mendoza,
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five touchdowns. Indiana ran for two touchdowns in one hundred
and eighty five yards, they caused three turnovers. Everything you
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It is Pete feutech, Pete what's happening, man, how's it going?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
I think it might be someone out there is better
than I am, because I still think Oregon's gonna win
with the out game three hundred and seventy eight yards
to three sixty three. And you know, it's like, seriously,
I mean, that was just a horrific performance. I mean,
I don't know what kind of vulcan mind meld, whatever
it is thing that they that Indiana has over teams.
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But Oregon just did not look good. I mean they
looked scared, they look unsure, and they just did not
play a good game.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I felt like watching this game, look as good as
Mendoza was is good. Everywhere Indiana seemed to be one
step ahead. They seem to be, you know, especially defensively
stopping them on third down. They seem to be at
a different level mentally, a different level of focus. It's
it's almost like watching a youth sports game where hey,
these two teams make it to the championship and one
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is the big club team that's so good, and the
other one just you know, wins a couple of games
how to forfeit, and you get to that champion will go, oh, yeah,
one team is really really good.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Other team does deserve to be on the field.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
It's crazy, though, Organ's kind of better. I mean, they've
got a whole lot more talent. I mean it just
but man, Indiana just does not make mistakes. And like
the crazy part about it, you could just like the
first play, pick six, it was just like all right,
and yeah, you just don't have it. Even even with
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a fantastic time it was seven to seven, they marched
pretty easily. I don't understand the game plan on either side.
For Oregon. I get it, their running backs were hurt,
but Dante morri is still the number two, maybe even
the one picking the drafts at the end of the day,
don't you let him like fling it fifty times and
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say you're the You've got to be the best player
on the field here. And he did it early on.
But then you had the you know, the running back fumble,
and you had this weird other fumble. You can't make
mistakes against Indiana because they just pounced on everything.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
It was complete domination at the Rose Bowl. And I
assume some people said, I'm not sure that's repeatable.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
It was so good. It was kind of repeated tonight,
wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yeah. I mean, first of all, the domination the Rosebuls, Oh,
that wasn't very good. I mean, Oregon's good. They just
this was just a weird I mean, they held it.
This is the second time this might I think this
might be this out of Indiana's season that I get.
Oregon has I think the two best yardage defensive games
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for Indiana. I think they both. I think they was
the Pennas State Nowork first organ game were tied with
the fewest amount of yards by Indiana, So they did
run up but kind of lost in this because they
were winning so big because they had such short fields.
But they did get you knocked off the field a
couple of times. There were chances there, but there was
a one moment where you could kind of tell there
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was a little bit of life, Like eighteen minutes to go,
and you said, you know what if they score here
and somehow three and out and get another tie down fast.
I don't think they're gonna win, but maybe they would
make it interesting. What do they do three straight runs
and work the clock and Oregon that in the then
of the third quarter went out, they went with that
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weird pitch to the outside, like they've never seen Indiana
play defense before. I know what they do. Uh. It
was just it was just a bad overall performance by Oregon.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, yeah, Pete, because that's what I like on fourth
and one is to give the ball to a guy
five yards behind the line of scrimmage, because that's all
it's going to get a first.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Out against like Indiana. That team is never going to
leave their lanes. It's like, do you not watch this team?
I mean, that's that's what you don't do. You power
on Indiana, That's how you beat them potentially. But no,
I'm saying it at Oregon organ organ. Indiana's awesome. I
mean they're playing great. I mean just I I love
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watching their receivers run route. I mean, Becker and sarat
are chets flawless. I mean the defense did a great job,
and yeah it didn't it wasn't a plus, But the
running game wasn't that bad for Oregon. The fifth string
running back that they flew out there was actually pretty good.
He wasn't the problem. But it was just like like
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Indiana beat them right out of the gate. I mean,
they just have this weird dominance thing happening that when
they show up and again pick six on the first play,
it's like you don't recover.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
From that with the cloud.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
This was like an Indiana home game in Atlanta tonight.
The final is going to be against Miami in Miami.
Is that going to make a difference on the field
the Hurricanes and the home support?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I don't know if. I mean, it depends on what
home support there might be. I mean, first of all,
the tickets for the sing are insane. I mean, it's
given the building, they're already talking it's like thirty eight
hundred and to get any real seat in the middle there,
you're ten grand already. So I mean everybody in the
Indiana fan ever, is going to go to this and
Miami people are going to go to this as well.
(22:56):
Totally dating myself here. If I could do that, I
wouldn't be here. But nineteen eighty three Nebraska was the
greatest team of all time. It was just a formality.
Blah blah blah. Bernie Cosar and the Miami Hurricanes pull
off the winningness in Miami in Miami exactly. You know,
I've just throw that out there, just as you know,
reference of something. But I don't think it's gonna happen.
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You can't come out and play scared against this team.
And you can tell right out of the gates that
Oregon looked like a team that didn't quite thing it
could think it could win. I still think my Indiana
people are gonna overrun Miami over in the stadium there.
But Miami had better come with a big time attitude
from the start that they can't just play scared like
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Orgon just did.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, here's the thing, Pete, is that like I look
at this game and I give Miami a little bit
more of a chance. Well, look if this, if this
Indiana team shows up, it doesn't matter who plays for Indiana.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It makes no difference who plays for Miami.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
They could have Kozar and Irvin and Willis mcgae, it
doesn't matter, but they're gonna get.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
See, I'm not gonna go that far. That was a
pretty good just as some pretty good teams back there.
With those you got some Hall of Fame talents down there.
So yeah, yeah, I think what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But here's the thing is that they're gonna Indiana is
gonna get a little bit of a bounce from this
game to the next game. And Miami is solid everywhere.
Their defense is fast, it's physical, and their style of
football where every possession is a thirteen play, sixty five
yard drive that takes nine minutes off the clock like that,
Like that, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The right far.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I think that's the right style to try to combat
this Indiana team that you want to keep Mendoza on
the bench and be able to, you know, control the
football a bit. Like I give Miami more than a
puncher's chance because they're solid. It's not like you can
do one thing and stop them. Like they're solid, they're fast,
they're gonna hit their physical They're gonna punch Indiana in
the mouth.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
So yeah, I'm looking forward.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I look at that and see that's a much better
matchup for this than Oregon turned out to be.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
For sure.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
They basically take everything you just said and just apply
that to Oregon, And that's kind of what I thought
was going to happen tonight. Look, but you're right, though,
I mean, the talent on Miami's lines. I mean, they've
got an NFL offensive line and they just need to
bash away from the starts. The pass rushers that weren't
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there against Ole miss those They've got some top ten
overall pick pass rushers. They've got the guys the defense.
You know, Tony is one of the best players probably
on match field. They're going to get to Mendoza. They
have ten days to kind of figure out how to
do this. So you're right, I mean, they've got all
the things there. But man, is Carson Beck going to
be the Carson Beck that we've seen in the last
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couple of weeks? Is he going to be the SMU
Louisville Carson Beck where those two picks and all of
a sudden game over Indiana has a funky way of
making making teams do that. But you're right, I like
this Miami team. I've said from the start that this
is a team that could make a deep run and
could win the national title. And you know again, you
know they play sharp if they played the thing I mean,
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Miami played the like C plus game. They totally dominated
Old Miss and yet it came down to the last
play it was like they made their own mistakes. They
don't make those mistakes. They blow out the rebels and
if they can just play sharper, then that team can
absolutely hang with Indiana.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Miami's defense has had so many good games. They only
give up fourteen points a game. Indiana was only allowing
ten points a game for the full season going into tonight.
Do you see this as more than just a fourteen
to ten type of game though?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
The final It depends on how like you guys were
alluding to it, how much do you get the long
sustained drives where you know you Mendoza take switch there,
it's given you're gonna want to get the ball out
of his hand in a hurry on the quick shots
because he does not want Ruben Bain jumping out his
head half the game.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
So it's do they just go ding ding ding ding
DNK down the field or you know, in Miami City,
same thing do they just landed offensive. I mean, look,
it's Old Miss. I mean, thank goodness Old Miss didn't
because Indiana would have won that game nine hundred and
fourteen to two. I mean it almost did. You wouldn't
have a chance against Indiana. That defensive front was getting gouged,
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and Miami, as good as it is, is not going
to be able to pile drive its way like it
did against the Rebels.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Pete Futech, College Footballnews dot Com insider, our guest here
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, flip side here Fernanda
Mendoza with the game he had tonight. Congratulations, you're the
number one pick in the draft. You're headed to the
Las Vegas Raiders, which I don't know if that's a victory,
but that's happening. Do you see anything different for the
future of Dante Moore after tonight's game, whether it is
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thinking more about going back to school, maybe the Jets
aren't going to take him at number two? What did
this kind of game? What impact did this kind of
game have on more?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I you know what, it shouldn't have any Like, if
you're good enough to play in the league, go to
the league, like okay, then it was a bad night,
Well he's gonna have good nights. He's going to be
I mean, if he's only twenty and I get it,
it's only his twenty first star and all that, but
if he's at the talent and I still kind of
think once the workouts start to kick it, everyone's gonna
love Mendoza because he's everything you want in the franchise quarterback.
(28:08):
You know, the personality, you know, the the accuracy, everything
you want in an NFL quarterback. But when Dante Moore
gets into a Pro Day and he lets a grip,
there's gonna be some people out there gonna be like, yeah,
Mendoza is really good, but wow, this guy, I mean,
he's just you got better tools, more talent. So at
the very least, let's say he's that too. Let's say
(28:29):
he's top five. He still go to the league. He's
the number two quarterback off the board of Mendoza's one
for lad So you know, what are you going to do?
It's a Bill Parcells thing. If you want to play
in the NFL, go to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
As far as the Big Ten Conference, we could have
three separate teams three years.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
In a row winning the national title. What does that
say about the Big Ten?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Or is it just Indiana happened to have its best
year ever and Michigan just happened to have this one
supreme year.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Is to say something as a whole about the league.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
It says that they're just better. I mean, I've been
screaming this for a couple of years. They have more money, like,
they have better deals. They have now of course the
Athletic Department of Texas and some of these other places,
they're just monsters and they're bigger than anybody else. But
in terms of the media rights deals, in terms of
the market share, I mean, you know, think of the
what are the big markets in the SEC Atlanta, Okay,
(29:24):
you know, Dallas, Yeah, I yes, sure, Houston with Texas,
A and m absolutely, you know, but look what you've
got with you know, with the Big Ten. You've got
whatever New York is for a market. You've got Chicago,
You've got La, You've got all these big markets that
and they just have the better deals and a lot
more dough. And now it's going to get even weirder
(29:44):
when you've got people like Mark Cuban who are going
to help out the cause with Indiana and they just
have the dough to keep this thing going. So it's
it's a blip. I mean, next year the SEC could
go nine and zero in the bowls and you know,
this is all just sort of a quirky thing. Look,
if they want to kick or puts it to the up,
they lose, you know there, but for you know, a
misplay by you know, Deo Pavia late and maybe Vanderbilt win.
(30:08):
So this is all kind of quirky. You know, Missouri
came down to the last play. I mean, you know,
everyone's dunking on the SEC. But it wasn't that bad. However,
the apology excuses to her by the SEC is insane.
You can't be the it just means more conference and
then be like, wow, these guys weren't really trying and.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So lastly, I know, look we got ten days so
the National champiship game. But right now we've just we've
talked to the last two nights. You've seen both of
these teams play. Give me your prediction. Right now we
see the national title game Indiana Miami.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
What do you think I'm getting missing on Indiana? I
mean I picked them to beat Alabama, but I thought
I'll know I would show up. And like I said,
I thought the Oregon was going to show up in this.
I'm not going to do that again. Seven and a
half is the early line. That seems like a lot
for this Miami team. But again, you know, how can
you not? You know, this team is still folks. It
doesn't seek phase by anything. And again, well it might
(31:03):
be in Miami, that thing's going to be like seventy percent.
Who's your fans? So I got to pick Indiana obviously
because they're just playing that well right now. And look,
you mentioned the Big Ten before, like the least eight years,
there was a run of eighteen in nineteen years where
SEC team was in the was in the national championship.
The old of Ohio State, Oregon gave him the first
(31:24):
college football Playoffs championship was the one blip. Now you
got three straight, like you said, without an SEC team
in it, it's lonely for them.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
He's on Twitter at Pete Futech. That is at Petefutech
college footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping to everything
college football.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Pete is always by the appreciated.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We'll talk to you next week and we'll talk portal
in preview the national title game.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Absolutely, guys are going.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
All right, there goes be future in college football.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
That will be the same conversation.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Somebody at halftime of the National title game will announce
they're going in the portal.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, it'll be arch Manning will be going into the
portal at halftime of the game, like a rod opting
out of his contract in the middle of the World Series.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I was a little surprised when I heard during the
broadcast tonight there's a give to so and so.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
You know he's in the portal. Wait, wait a minute,
he's playing right now.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
He's actually gotten the football and has run into the
portal like it's Avengers and has opened the portal.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Running through that you just disappear. Well, he's going he's
in the portal.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
He's like that dumb Superman movie. They're into some new
universe here.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So seven and a half points is your early line
for Indiana and Miami.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Why are we seeing Indiana Miami?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Steve disager as the details on what the Hoosiers just
did to the Ducks and more with what's trending right.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Now, they wipe the floor with him. I think that
is the correct answer. I'll take Hoosiers for two hundred Alex. Yeah,
it's dominance, complete dominance for the number one team in
the land. Indiana fifty six twenty two over the Oregon Ducks,
and in league play they had won at Oregon back
in October, getting ten points in the last six and
a half minutes to win by ten tonight in front of,
(33:03):
to say the least, a pro Hoosier crowd showing up
in Atlanta. This semi final goes to Indiana as Fernando Mendoza,
the Heisman Trophy winner, throws five touchdown passes. He was
seventeen of twenty for one hundred and seventy seven yards.
And yes, they are favorites for the national title game
against Miami in Miami on Monday the nineteenth to the
(33:24):
NBA Phoenix held on for victory over the next tonight,
one twelve to one oh seven thirty one points for
Devin Booker, twenty seven for Dylan Brooks, twenty seven for
Jalen Brunson in the defeat. So we have three late
games in progress.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
In the NBA.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Halftime in La, Bucks leading the Lakers sixty one fifty
two mid third quarter Rockets only a head at Portland
seventy two to seventy and their late third quarter at
Golden State Warriors are only leading Sacramento eighty six eighty four. Earlier,
OKC was down twenty one and still won its game
at Menphis one seventeen one sixteen and Shay Kiljos Alexander
(34:03):
did not play due to a sprained ankle and still
OKSE goes to thirty two and seven wins on the
road for the Clippers in Atlanta, for New Orleans and Philadelphia.
Boston won at home, beating Toronto one twenty five, one
to seventeen.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
RJ.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Barrett of the Raptors left with an ankle injury. Anthony
Davis of the MAVs could miss a few months if
surgery is required on his left hand.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
He has ligament damage.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
College basketball, USC was an overtime winner at Minnesota seventy
to sixty nine, just three NHL games. The late contest
is in the final minute at Utah, the Mammoth leading
four to two over the Blues. The Winnipeg won at
home five to one against La Washington, a five to
one winner at Chicago. Brooks Koepka applied for reinstatement to
the PGA Tour. He just left Live Golf after well,
(34:49):
still having one year left on his contract, wanting to
stay closer to home.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
The Jason Smith Show is Steve Desager in for Mike Harmon.
Now we have said a lot about in Dana head
coach Kurt Signetti, who said, listen, I am happy at times,
even though I never smile. Wait till you hear what
Signetti had to say right after Indiana pasted Oregon to
go to.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
The National Championship.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I stopt that.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
No no, no, no, no, no no, because I know
what he said. He didn't say that. Prove it right now,
he didn't say. He didn't say.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Waitill you hear what he had to say. You're gonna
hear it next right here. Jason Smith, Steve Desager, this
is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Explain it to me.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
The Jason Smith Show with special delivery Steve de Saga
in for Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
That is not John Cena We just watched.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Indiana put a clinic on against Oregon. Indiana played great,
Oregon did not fifty six twenty two. So now Indiana
and Miami into the National Championship game on the nineteenth,
and look, there's a lot of great things and some
we're gonna make a big, bold prediction, built, big, big
hot take coming up in about ten minutes on Indiana
(36:19):
after winning this game tonight. But so much attention on
Kurt Signetti in the job he's done. Is Indiana's head coach,
and look getting the contract extension in just in two years.
They have a dynasty in Indiana. It's insane. And he
had a big comment yesterday Steve on the day before
the game where he said, look, you know I'm happy
at times. You know, he's never happy on the sideline.
(36:41):
He's always upset. I think it was I think it
was performance art in the fourth quarter, like that he's
scowling and mad and yelling after they block a punt
when they're up forty two thirteen they have the ball
in the red zone, Like, Okay, you don't need to
be scout, you don't need to be smiling and suddenly
going crazy. You don't need to dance around the field
like you're Robert Sola after a sack. But I mean,
(37:02):
come on, man, let's let's a little bit let you.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You don't need to be sitting there going okay. So
I think a little bit of performance art. But there were.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Times tonight where it seemed like a smile was coming
to the face, and the way he erased it was
with not quite scowl, but kind of a skew. Let's
say the lips were going a skew to one side,
like a somewhat disappointed look. And that's how he rid
himself of the thoughts of a smile during a game.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Do you think he had like a there was a
like he had an ear piece in where someone was
telling it to Hey, cameras on your cameras, right, can't smark.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Gotta look mad, gotta look bad.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I gotta be always coaching, always coaching, Always go abc,
always be coaching.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
There is no very good.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
There is no smirking at what Mendoza has done in
these two playoff games for Indiana, because he still has
more touchdown passes than incompletions thrown in two playoff games
combined eight tds, including the five tonight five incompletions total
in playing Alabama and Oregon.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
So you would think, Okay, Kurt Signetti's gonna show up
and give his postgame press conversation. Well, there's some things
we gotta work on. Yeah, yeah, a game he played
almost Brotta. I think he's gotta work out. We got
a really tough game coming up. However, we did not
get that from Kurt Signetti. We got what is going
to be a SoundBite. I'm sure we play on this
show for the next year plus. Tight Shirt's gonna hear it.
(38:28):
He's gonna love it. This is Signetti off the field
doing an interview with ESPN. He's asked about thinking about
Miami the National Championship, and this is Kurt Signetti's response,
I'm really.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Not thinking about the next game.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
I'm bringing about cracking open up beer.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Congrats and joy that beer, coach.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I mean, what do you say after that? That's great, coach,
But one more question. I just said, I want to
go get a beer because we just won the semi final.
We're going to play I'm going to get a beer
right now. Don't ask me any more questions.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
So he's in the heartland of America. He never wears
the blue collar, but this is gonna make him even
more beloved to the fan base.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Oh yeah, that's so on brand for Kurtzignetti. Yeah, we
just won. I'm gonna go have a.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Beer and then I'm gonna get mad at my team
and find a way to motivate them to go play
against Miami.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
And once he turns eighty years old, he'll become the
Colts coach and he'll stay in stay. I can see
how all of this is going.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I don't know, or does he win the national title
and then get the job right away, like if he wins,
if he if he beats Miami, does suddenly the Colts go, hey, yeah,
look that looks Shanstein been great.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, now you're gone.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I think he's gonna wait until Philip Rivers turned sixty
and then back as he joins the Colts and stations.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Uh kind of like his quarterback offensive coordinator.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
He could do both, actually literally do both. He could
call his own plays. We could go old school NFL
on that.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Sure, But I dig that.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I'm thinking about cracking open a beer, like like like
there's somebody in the locker room whose job it is,
And if we win this game. You have a beer
ready for coach when he comes out. Okay, you just
you you open it and you hand it to him,
and it's it's not gonna be like Luca, where someone's
gonna come take it away from him.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
No, you hand him that beer and you give that
beard to coach. You give him five minutes to enjoy
this game or.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
This game was so lopsided he actually had time on
the sidelines during the game to think about such thing.
It was forty two to seven in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
We blocked that putt hey, go grab me that Corse light.
It's it. Just go into the into the locker room.
It's hit my under the gator rainer.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, it's right at the bottom right there. Just pull
it out, Just bring it out to me. Okay, yeah,
but put put it in a koozy so nobody knows,
all right, so nobody could tell.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
I don't know if you saw the sixty minutes interview
with Signetti and about the Indiana program in general, and
they even got Mellencamp in there. I mean, it was
just it was if you are a neutral fan of
the sport of football, and even not necessarily the Big
ten or college football. It was attractive. It's such a
good story, and it's getting better by the round. And
(41:07):
it's not hyperbole when these network guys can continually say
this is the greatest college football story of my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah, I mean, it's so unlikely. It's I mean, I
think everybody needs a beer after that. I need a
beer after what we're gonna say about Indiana coming up next,
I'm gonna need a beer and I get two the
show with you undefeated Still it's I mean, you're already
seeing I'm seeing trend on Twitter twenty twenty, Alabama twenty nineteen, LSU.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
You know, two of the best.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
College football teams individually of the last you know, a
couple of.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Decades in Miami yet about what two thousand and three
or two or four or somewhere around there, they had
a phenomenal roster.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I mean, this is this is incredible. This is the
level of football we're talking about Indiana at. So yeah,
I can see where Kurtzignetti needs a beer. I can
see where that happens right there. Exit out about a
Frescas Jason Smith Steve de Seger in a Fox Sports
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Speaker 3 (42:03):
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Speaker 3 (42:11):
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Speaker 1 (42:12):
You'll get that Kurtzignetti audio about cracking Oprah a beer,
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It sucked.
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