College Football Idiot Savant Season Review
Congratulations to the Indiana Hoosiers, your 2025 national champions, and a big shoutout to Mr. Mendoza for that 4th quarter touchdown run. They are deserving champions and put together a remarkable 14-0 season.
Thanks to everyone who took time to read the series over the past two seasons, it’s been fun to participate in the banter and joke around about college football. I feel like it’s a good season to end on because going 36-20-2 against the spread is a feat I will probably not repeat. Betting successfully 61% of the time when a main point considered is how much you can’t stomach one of the teams is not a repeatable winning formula.
I’ll still be watching the Buckeyes right along side you from the city-state of Columbus, and I’ll never not respond to an, O-H. The sport is in a pretty good place with the playoff system going forward, and I’d eventually run out of jokes at the South’s expense. Thanks again to everyone who read one of these over the past couple of years, it brought me may smiles.
College Football Idiot Savant National Championship
As we wrap up this season and reflect on the journey we have been on with our teams and schools, take a moment. Celebrate yourself for participating in group sports solidarity, camaraderie, and traditions almost on the level of professional soccer. All things considered it has been a great season of football to watch, and we should celebrate the student athletes that make our Saturdays whole in the fall.
One thing I need to address since I’ve been hearing about it for 23 years: Miami fans don’t get to bitch about the 2002 national championship pass interference call ever again. They got such a gift of a no call against Ole Miss, 24 got away with pulling down the receiver on that last play. It’s not my fight to have, and I respect the result, but Ohio State fans should keep this reference in their back pocket for late night bickering contests.
Allow me to focus on the topic at hand, #1 Indiana (-8.5) vs #10 Miami in the title game . It’s worth pointing out that these are two of the three oldest rosters in college football in terms of years of experience, based on my Chat GPT analytics. This would help to explain why Indiana is the only team in the expanded playoff era to win a game after a bye. The depth of experience on their offensive line in particular has been the engine of the Mendoza attack.
Both of these teams have earned their spot here with impressive playoff runs, and either one would be a fitting champion for the second season of the new playoff system. That being said, barring injury, I don’t see any other outcome than Indiana winning this game. As a former offensive lineman at a very amateur level, I look forward to watching part of the first half to see who wins the battle at the line of scrimmage.
That will be what determines the outcome, both in terms of the cover, and the straight up winner. I think Mendoza will be protected enough to be efficient on 3rd downs and they have been able to get short yards rushing the ball at will. I hesitate to be too positive about anything related to Indiana because of my experiences on the roadways there, but I digress. Mike Pence survived an attempted hanging on January 6th, 2021 with a new lease on life and dreams of seeing a day like this for his state. He’s still a bag of liquid garbage with no redeeming value, but for now, Who! Who! Who! Hoosiers!
Summary:
#1 Indiana covers -8.5
Record: 37-19-2
College Football Idiot Savant Playoff Week 3
There was certainly a lot of excitement in the playoff over the new year holiday, with a couple of explosive matchups to come in the semi-final. It was disappointing to see the Buckeyes knocked out, but please allow me to extinguish the flames amongst the fan base about blame. I have already seen and heard the Ryan Day hate club out and about, let me be clear: it doesn’t matter what plays are being called when the other team is dominating you on both sides of the ball at the line of scrimmage. We got beat, physically, on the field, spend the offseason cursing the kicker’s name if you have to.
Prediction 1: Sometimes you learn something from taking a beating, that should be the hope. What I learned in Ohio State’s loss to Indiana last week is that there are two contenders left, the two that are the best at the line of scrimmage, 300 pound man on 300 pound man. #10 Miami showed they have that in spades last week, and could get 3 yards whenever they needed to. The monsters on their defensive line are no slouch either, with #6 Ole Miss in their sights, may the last SEC pillar fall. Miami covers -3.5.
Prediction 2: I have to give major props to Heisman trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, who in his first breath during the postgame interview praised, “the hoggies.” With 50 rushes for 215 yards through stars-and-bars territory, that offensive line from #1 Indiana made Alabama look like a directional school, in the playoff. #5 Oregon in my lifetime has always been flash and finesse over strength, and that doesn’t match up well here. If Indiana gets four yards per carry again, this one wont be that competitive. Indiana Hoggies cover -3.5.
I appreciate that the committee, or whatever overcompensated corporate entity involved, decided to put the Big Ten game on Friday night so I can watch it. This playoff has seen some new faces, new colors, new stars, and the hope is that this will be the last week of SEC football until the fall. I haven’t decided who I am rooting for in the final four yet, but I like Oregon’s uniforms the most so I’ll go with them. I think the highest probability is a low scoring Indiana-Miami slog that I won’t be able to stay awake for.
Summary:
#10 Miami covers -3.5
#1 Indiana covers -3.5
Record: 35-19-2
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