r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Jan 20 '26

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Indiana Defeats Miami 27-21

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Miami 0 0 7 14 21
Indiana 3 7 7 10 27
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u/Auferstehen2 Michigan State Spartans Jan 20 '26

For those that don't follow the sport and need an analogy for what it's like for Indiana to win the championship: It's like walking into a casino with $5 and walking out with the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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u/No_Pirate_1409 Western Illinois • Oklahoma S… Jan 20 '26

This is like Leicester winning the premier league

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u/Constant_Chip_1508 Iowa Hawkeyes Jan 20 '26

This might be even more insane. It’s certainly close 

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u/Rojotrece Washington Huskies • Cascade Clash Jan 20 '26

Not even close, Leicester is far far more insane.

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u/No_Pirate_1409 Western Illinois • Oklahoma S… Jan 20 '26

Ya Leicester winning it was closer to a 16 seed winning the national title in basketball

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u/GoatPaco Tennessee • Tennessee Tech Jan 20 '26

From what I understand it’s more like Toledo going 16-0 and winning the CFP

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Even more improbable given Leicester had to do it over a 38 game season.

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u/raikou1988 Jan 20 '26

How come genuinely curious?

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u/Virzitone Indiana Hoosiers Jan 20 '26

Even looking at odds (not the best predictor, but a reasonable estimate). IU was 150:1 at season start. Leicester was 10,000:1

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u/owiseone23 Jan 20 '26

Soccer leagues have very little parity compared to American professional sports, no salary cap, no drafts, no flat revenue sharing, etc. So it's very unusual for a team outside of the top few to win the league, let alone a team like Leicester who were just promoted from the lower league the season earlier.

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u/enjoytheshow Illinois Fighting Illini Jan 20 '26

They won the Prem their second season up. They barely survived relegation the season before though.

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u/superguardian Jan 20 '26

Part of it is structural - Leicester had to be top of the league after a 38 game double round robin season to win the title, so a hot streak of 5-6 games isn’t enough.

Part of it is how out of nowhere they came. The prior season, Leicester was 14th (out of 20). The season before that, they were in a lower division.

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u/enjoytheshow Illinois Fighting Illini Jan 20 '26

And when they finished 14th I’m pretty sure they were 19th in like March and went on a miraculous run to stay up

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u/superguardian Jan 20 '26

Yeah they won 11 games that season and 7 of those came in the last 9 or 10 games of the year. Prior to that miracle run they were 20th (last). They were in last place for like half the season.

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u/Ml2jukes Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Jan 20 '26

Orders of magnitude more difficult. Brand aside, Indiana still benefits tremendously from playing in the big ten at the end of the day.

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u/Colts2020 Purdue Boilermakers • LSU Tigers Jan 20 '26

Let’s be real this is more Man City than Leicester. IU dropped millions to build this team