Indiana Faces Tough Task vs. Oregon in CFP Semifinal

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00:00Hottest team going right now in all of college football.

00:02Indiana beats Ohio State.

00:04They win last week of the playoff game.

00:05Mendoza, I don't know what Mendoza is in the future, honestly,

00:09but in college right now, he's like perfect.

00:11He's the perfect quarterback.

00:13Doesn't make mistakes, always completing passes.

00:16And then when they get a lead, they just run the ball.

00:18The game ends, Paul.

00:19So what happens tonight in the semifinal game?

00:22Total of 48 and a half.

00:24It just seems as though this kid Mendoza's unflappable.

00:27Yeah, I'll tell you, we have two great matchups, Craig, without question.

00:33I mean, the Ole Miss-Miami game has plenty of intrigue.

00:36In this game, a matchup of Big Ten schools, Oregon and Indiana,

00:40just great theater, you know, and you've got two quarterbacks.

00:44You mentioned Fernando Mendoza, but Dante Moore for Oregon.

00:47This is a guy who is, you know, signed with UCLA at a high school

00:51as a true freshman in 2023.

00:53I believe he started five games for the Bruins.

00:57Not a real good UCLA team.

00:59So he took his bumps and bruises.

01:01Last year, after transferring to Oregon, he sits behind Dylan Gabriel,

01:06hardly plays.

01:07So the point I'm really getting to is the fact Dante Moore,

01:10although highly recruited, a five-star guy,

01:13he hadn't really played a whole lot of football until this season.

01:16And we've seen that maturation and that development, I think,

01:20the second half of the quarterback, second half of the season, rather.

01:24And, I mean, again, three of these quarterbacks, not to knock Carson Becks,

01:28because he's got some talent in his own right.

01:30But, man, you look at these two quarterbacks in the Friday semifinal,

01:33Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner for Indiana,

01:36and then Dante Moore for Oregon, and then also, of course,

01:40Ole Miss's Trinidad Chambliss.

01:41So we've got some big-time quarterbacks.

01:44And in this game, you know, this is a rematch of an earlier game played

01:48the second Saturday in October when Indiana travels to Eugene to Austin

01:53Stadium to play Oregon as a seven-point underdog.

01:56Oregon actually tied that game early in the fourth quarter.

01:59Brandon Penny Jr. picks off a Fernando Mendoza pass, returns at 35 yards.

02:04The game's tied at 20.

02:07Indiana, though, in true Indiana fashion, they drive 75 yards.

02:11And 12 plays on the ensuing drive, take the lead, ultimately win that game 30-20.

02:17Looking at that game, man, was Indiana's defense impressive.

02:22In the game, they give up just 267 yards total,

02:26allow the Ducks only 4.2 yards per play.

02:29Oregon only 3 of 14 on third down at home against Indiana in that loss.

02:37And the Hoosiers' defense was especially nasty in the second half.

02:40In the second half, the Ducks only 64 total yards on 27 plays, 2.4 yards per play.

02:48So just a huge effort by that Indiana defense.

02:52But now the question is, what does round two look like?

02:55You know, teams make adjustments.

02:56You've got two great coaching staffs here.

02:59So what will this one look like?

03:00Both teams coming off big victories.

03:02Oregon throttled Alabama 38-3 in their quarterfinal matchup.

03:07Oregon blank Texas Tech.

03:10The Red Raiders couldn't move the ball at all.

03:12Oregon wins that game 23-0.

03:14But I really like this Indiana defense.

03:17I think that's going to be the difference.

03:18I like kind of two plays here.

03:20The play that I like the most is going to be the total.

03:23I like this game to go under 48-1⁄2.

03:25And then I like Indiana minus 3-1⁄2.

03:28I just can't fade Eric Signetti.

03:30I like, you know, I'm going to keep going with the Hoosiers until they prove me wrong.

03:34And, again, I like the under the best and then Indiana as the side.

03:38I like the end of the year.

03:56And I acho it's going to be the first step.

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