Indiana Hoosiers Cap Perfect Season With Epic Victory

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00:00Coach, the 2025 season is in the books.

00:03The Indiana Hoosiers complete a perfect season.

00:07They win the game against the Miami Hurricanes on Monday night, 27-21.

00:13They don't get the cover as basically a 7.5-point favorite,

00:17but the game does go through the total of 46.5.

00:21Give me your thoughts about what transpired on Monday night

00:24and the season put in by Indiana and their head coach, Kurt Cignetti.

00:28Well, I mean, an amazing year ended with a victory and an undefeated season.

00:33It's so hard to win every game in college football.

00:37You can go your whole career 20, 30 years and have one or two.

00:41It just doesn't happen very often for Kurt to do it in his first,

00:45second year at Indiana to a team that was one of the worst teams in college,

00:50the worst team in college football.

00:51Great year, but it was a great game.

00:53I think Miami, they tried to do the things they had to do to win,

00:57and pressure on the quarterback, run the football.

01:00They just didn't count on a block punt.

01:03They didn't count a 50-yard field goal being missed,

01:06or they'd maybe win the game.

01:08But the bottom line was Indiana was a little better.

01:11Almost every statistic, they were a little bit better.

01:14But I think that quarterback Mendoza came through as the gamer.

01:19He's the guy that at the end of the game, he led him to touchdown at the end of the game,

01:23a great run for a touchdown.

01:26Beck on a first and 10 with 48 seconds left, you don't force the ball.

01:30He throws a pick on first and 10 with 48 seconds left, a chance to win the game.

01:35He blinked.

01:36I guess he blinked.

01:37But basically, Miami had everything in line, pressure the quarterback, run the football the best they could.

01:43But Indiana just, you know, they blocked eight punts the last two.

01:46It wasn't like that was an unexpected thing.

01:49That was just another blocked punt and another reason they're so well coached up and won like they did at Indiana.

01:56Indiana had the best turnover margin in college football entering that matchup.

02:01They were plus 21.

02:03Miami entered that battle right in the area of about plus 11.

02:07They needed to win the turnover battle.

02:09Not only that, they needed to win on third-down conversions.

02:13Indiana not only had the best turnover margin,

02:15they also had the best third-down offense in college football converting 56% of their third-down opportunities.

02:23They had the better quarterback.

02:24That definitely solidified himself, at least for now, as the number one overall pick in April's draft,

02:32most likely going to Las Vegas.

02:34But Fernando Mendoza lived up to the hype.

02:37Maybe not a stellar effort over 200 yards, but he got the rushing touchdown.

02:42He put his team in a position, didn't really turn the football over.

02:46And that's the main reason why Indiana did solidify the six-point win.

02:50I think it's intriguing, Coach.

02:52I read the article that Indiana didn't fumble the football, I believe, since week number one,

02:59which was like 1,047 snaps, I mean, that just goes to show you the attention to detail by Cignetti, by the staff.

03:08I mean, players are young, right?

03:11Whether they be 22, 23, 18 years old, I mean, to not lose a fumble since week number one

03:18is just an amazing statistic to play out throughout the regular season.

03:23Joe, it's another instance of a team that's well-coached.

03:28Fumbling, it's coached.

03:29How to hold the football, how to secure the football, how to cover it, the five points of pressure,

03:34don't hold it away from your body, cover it up when you get hit.

03:37All those things are coaching.

03:40You know, you can't really determine.

03:41Once the ball is fumbled, it's almost luck who recovers it.

03:45But by not fumbling, that's coached.

03:47In Indiana, that was another case of doing the things that you have to do to win,

03:52just like blocking that punt.

03:53That wasn't a special punt rush.

03:56That was their normal punt rush.

03:57A guy going above and beyond, they had done it eight times the last two years.

04:02Those are the things that make a difference.

04:03In a football game like this, those are the difference in the football game.

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