Mario Cristobal<\/a> is known for his coaching history as someone who prioritizes the trenches. <\/p>\nThe success of the Hurricanes has been highlighted by beating Texas A&M, Ohio State, and Ole Miss during their College Football Playoff run. The national championship game will be against Indiana, which is college football’s poster child right now. <\/p>\n
Fernando Mendoza will look to play well in his hometown against the Hurricanes<\/p>\n
The Heisman Trophy winner was quarterback Fernando Mendoza, and he was the main reason behind the Hoosiers being undefeated this year. Mendoza transferred to Indiana from California this past offseason. <\/p>\n
The signal-caller was productive with the Golden Bears, but he did not beat Florida State in the 2024 meeting, where they lost by a score of 14-9. Leave it up to head football coach Mike Norvell to beat Mendoza in one of his seven wins over the past two seasons. <\/p>\n
Florida State fans don’t want to see Miami win a national championship. It will set the Seminoles’ program back far. As a result, the Florida State faithful will be cheering for Fernando Mendoza and Indiana, beating the Hurricanes. <\/p>\n
It could make it so much sweeter that Mendoza is from Columbus High School in Miami, Florida, which is near Miami’s campus. The quarterback was a former three-star prospect and was considered the 138th-best signal-caller in the 2022 cycle, according to 247Sports Composite. <\/p>\n
This isn’t to say that Mendoza should have been a target for the Miami coaching staff during his recruiting process because he was a low three-star prospect. However, the quarterback will have a chip on his shoulder with Miami being the hometown. <\/p>\n
Indiana has dominated opponents this year, and the Seminole fan base hopes that Cristobal and the Hurricanes lose in embarrassing fashion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State football did not have the 2025 season that it wanted, as it finished with a 5-7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-113603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}