{"id":113955,"date":"2026-01-11T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113955\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:06:16","slug":"12-insane-numbers-that-define-indianas-cfp-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113955\/","title":{"rendered":"12 insane numbers that define Indiana’s CFP dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Mendoza and Indiana’s 56-22 dismantling of Oregon in the College Football Playoff semifinals<\/a> was historic in more than one way, starting with the Heisman Trophy winner’s own performance: five touchdowns to four different receivers \u2014 with only three incompletions.<\/p>\n

Here’s a deeper look by the numbers at the Hoosiers after they secured a place in the Jan. 19 national championship game against Miami.<\/p>\n

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1<\/p>\n

Number of FBS or NFL players who have ever had a game with at least 5 passing TDs, an 85% completion rate and at least 25 rushing yards. That would be Mendoza’s performance against Oregon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

Number of games this season Mendoza has had more TDs than incompletions. According to Dave Revsine of Big Ten Network<\/a>, no other quarterback this century has done that more than twice.<\/p>\n

7.5<\/p>\n

Points Indiana is favored by over Miami in BetMGM’s initial odds for the national championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8<\/p>\n

Total number of 4- and 5-star recruits on Indiana’s roster. Oregon had 55. And of those eight Indiana recruits? Not a single one was a 5-star.<\/p>\n

9<\/p>\n

Total tackles for loss by Indiana’s defense against Oregon. Mendoza, meanwhile, was sacked just once.<\/p>\n

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28<\/p>\n

Number of points Indiana scored off Oregon turnovers in the semifinal. That’s three more than the total number of points \u2014 as in total total \u2014 the Hoosiers have allowed in their two CFP games this season.<\/p>\n

30<\/p>\n

Minutes it takes to drive from Mendoza’s Miami home to Hard Rock Stadium, site of the Jan. 19 national championship game.<\/p>\n

45<\/p>\n

Number of Indiana players with at least four years experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

69<\/p>\n

Total points Indiana beat Alabama and Oregon by in its two CFP games this season.<\/p>\n

100<\/p>\n

Combined total of points Indiana has beaten its four top-10 opponents by this season.<\/p>\n

473<\/p>\n

Indiana’s point differential this season, largest in the CFP era. Clemson’s 467 in 2018 is the second largest.<\/p>\n

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3,547<\/p>\n

Get-in price in dollars for the Jan. 19 national title game between Indiana and Miami, as of Saturday morning, according to Gametime<\/a>. That’s nearly $1,000 higher than the average ticket price for last year’s championship with Ohio State and Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza and Indiana’s 56-22 dismantling of Oregon in the College Football Playoff semifinals was historic in more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8173,10241,11450,3156,123,125,124,56787,14591],"class_list":["post-113955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-alabama","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-fernando-mendoza","tag-indiana","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-national-championship-game","tag-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113955","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=113955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}