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Barnhouse: Two Programs, Two Reinventions, One Wild National Title Game

Once written off, Indiana and Miami rebuilt themselves in radically different ways, and now meet on college football’s biggest stage.

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Wendell Barnhouse
Jan 15, 2026
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Season two of the expanded College Football Playoff has delivered both surprise and entertainment. The two most impressive blowouts came courtesy of the Big Ten Conference champion Ohio State Buckeyes.

(Finger to ear, hearing imaginary producer through imaginary earpiece.) “Wait, I’m being told that’s incorrect.”

Monday night’s championship game between t…

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45 years as a sports journalist. Retired since 2020. Now 70 (gulp); those who bet the under - losers. :) Covered every Final Four from 1986 to 2008 plus 2012, 2014 and 2018. Plus reported on 15 college football national championship games.
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