Miami<\/a> in a thriller in the national title game.<\/p>\nIt’s arguably the most magical season in college football history, and the fact Indiana has historically been awful makes it even better.<\/p>\n
Apparently, Ohio State needs to learn how to show a bit more respect to the best team in the country.<\/p>\n
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Indiana’s dominating season ended with beating Miami in the national title game. (Photo by Peter Joneleit\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Ohio State stars claim Buckeyes would win rematch against Indiana.<\/p>\n
Downs and Tate appeared on the “Down 2 Business” podcast this week and were both asked if they’d win a rematch against the national champions.<\/p>\n
The duo both said “yes” without a second of hesitation or thought.<\/p>\n
You can watch the moment unfold below at 23:39, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.<\/p>\n
On one hand, I understand why players are always going to say they’re going to win. It’d be a bit weird to admit defeat, but this situation is similar to when SEC fans claims teams in the conference would win every single hypothetical matchup imaginable. Paul Finebaum has made a career out of that shtick.<\/p>\n
The reality of the situation is shockingly simple. Ohio State had a chance to beat Indiana in early December in the Big Ten title game.<\/p>\n
How’d that go for them?<\/p>\n
The Buckeyes lost 13-10.<\/p>\n
The team had its chance, and came out as the loser. Plain and simple. Why is there any reason to believe a rematch would go differently?<\/p>\n
Miami bounced OSU from the playoff, and the Hurricanes ended up losing to Indiana for the national title. Let’s pull our head out of the clouds and come back to reality.<\/p>\n
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A pair of Ohio State stars think the Buckeyes would win a rematch against Indiana. (Photo by James Black\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Indiana is the king of college football, and any chatter otherwise is nonsense. Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com if you agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana beat Ohio State 13-10 in the Big Ten title game. PublishedJanuary 30, 2026 1:30 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 30,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-439472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}