Twenty-three years later, the Canes have finally made it back to a national championship game. Where they now find themselves in the plucky underdog role to the sport’s current untouchable juggernaut: Indiana.

The College Football Playoff began Dec. 19, 2025 and ends Jan. 19. Who will win the national title? Ohio State? Georgia? Someone else?

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.

With only 150 new students instead of the targeted 300 last year, financial stability for the institution will have to be pushed off.

Cooper took six shots, made all six of them and finished with a career-high 18 points, nine rebounds and a block. He was also 6-of-8 from the free-throw line while Tom Izzo's Spartans improved to 14-2 on the season, 4-1 in the Big Ten. " [Izzo] wants me to be more assertive," Cooper said. "He wants me to get more involved in the offense"