The No. 1 Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes meet for the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship.

If you want to attend the College Football Playoff National Championship between Miami and Indiana, you'll have to be willing to spend top dollar. On Thursday night, Miami punched its ticket to the national title game by defeating Ole Miss in a 31-27 thriller.

Miami native Fernando Mendoza and Indiana face his hometown Miami Hurricanes in Miami for a College Football Playoff national championship.

It looked improbable two months ago. Two years ago — impossible. But against the odds, Miami and Indiana have a date in the College Football Playoff final — a first-of-its-kind matchup on Jan. 19 in the second national title game of the expanded-playoff era.

Who would have thought Indiana and Miami in the Natty final in the 2025 pre-season? On one side is a trash-talking, almost unabashed head coach in Curt Cignetti, adamant on building a dynasty with the Hoosiers.

Fernando Mendoza threw five touchdown passes in leading No. 1-ranked Indiana to a 56-22 rout of Oregon in Friday.

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Fernando Mendoza and the Hoosiers have once again laid waste to one of the best teams in college football. And only one remains.