Show Notes:
Indiana won the National Championship for the 2025 season, and everybody is falling all over themselves to talk about what a great story it is for college football. Many have declared that Hollywood couldn’t write a better ending to the season…
I disagree.
I do think Indiana was the best team in college football last year, and I think they more than earned the championship by winning the Big 10 and the College Football Playoff. But I don’t think it is a Hollywood story.
When Boise State beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl on a schoolyard play, and their star running back dropped to a knee and proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend on the sideline, that was the greatest storybook ending to a football game and season.
But I’m not arguing storylines and the significance of games here. I’m arguing that Indiana is not a have-not in college football; they have been a care-not. Indiana never tried to be good at football, and they got predictable results. They are not the little engine that could; they are the little engine that didn’t care.
And even now, as they have ascended to the pinnacle of the sport, they were not trying to climb the mountain; they were just rearranging the deck chairs on their own personal Titanic, but came up roses and glory more by accident than anything.
Once I get this little grip off my chest, then we can get back to UGA Athletics and Georgia Football…
GoDawgs!
