Fernando Mendoza of the Indiana Hoosiers dives for a fourth-quarter touchdown against the Miami Hurricanes in the College Football Playoff National Championship at Hard Rock Stadium, Florida. Photograph: Carmen Mandato/Getty Images
Many observers seem to lose their sanity when it comes to American college football. As a sport, it comes laden with over-the-top superlatives and ridiculous, hyperbolic commentary.
But all the exaggerated language seemed fair when applied to the outcome of last Monday night’s National Championship final between Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes. The young men from Indiana University got the better of their Miami counterparts - five-time champions, no less – on a 27-21 scoreline.
Sports Illustrated ran the headline, “Impossible to Google: Indiana Completes Unlikeliest Turnaround in Sports History”.
That was a play on their coach Curt Cignetti, th
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