{"id":690011,"date":"2026-01-20T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690011\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:07:13","slug":"miami-indiana-prep-for-cfp-national-championship-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690011\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami, Indiana prep for CFP National Championship \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowIndiana won the coin toss and opted to defer, so the Hoosiers will have the ball to open the second half.The No. 1-seeded Hoosiers are led by Fernando Mendoza, who is also expected to be the top pick in April&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/nfl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/tag\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NFL<\/a> draft as the QB-needy Las Vegas Raiders go first.The No. 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/miami-hurricanes\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/miami-hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hurricanes<\/a> have fifth-year quarterback Carson Beck under center, who left Georgia after four seasons. Miami is playing underdog in front of a home crowd, as Hard Rock Stadium, home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/miami-dolphins\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/miami-dolphins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dolphins<\/a>, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/sports\/ncaaf\/college-football-playoff-national-championship-game-2026-date-location\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/sports\/ncaaf\/college-football-playoff-national-championship-game-2026-date-location\/4010565\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">venue for the showdown<\/a>.The game will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/sports\/ncaaf\/cfp-national-championship-game-2026-time-channel-stream-location\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/sports\/ncaaf\/cfp-national-championship-game-2026-time-channel-stream-location\/4014997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">available to watch<\/a> on TV via ESPN, with streaming on ESPN.com and the ESPN app.Indiana has never won the national championship. The 2026 appearance is also the program&#8217;s first in the final.Miami has won five national championships, but none since 2001. Along with the 2001 victory, the Hurricanes hoisted the trophy in 1983,\u00a01987,\u00a01989 and\u00a01991.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship Game is between the top-seeded Indiana Hoosiers and the No. 10-seeded Miami Hurricanes. Follow along for live updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowIndiana won the coin toss and opted to defer, so the Hoosiers will have the ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,332,7,2972,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-690011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-college-football-playoff","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami-hurricanes","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}