Local Hour: Premature Prediculation

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: Premature Prediculation
Date: January 13, 2026
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Mike Ryan, Chris Cody, Greg Cody, Jeremy, Guest Analysts
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This "Local Hour" of The Dan Le Batard Show is a spirited, Miami-centric roundtable capturing the energy of a city on the brink of a massive sports event: the Miami Hurricanes playing Indiana for the college football national championship at Hard Rock Stadium. The crew dives into cultural identity, bandwagon Miami fandom, the surreal sight of Miami as championship underdog, ticket madness, legacy, and Lions-vs-Lambs football talk—all with the group's trademark blend of irreverence, familial ribbing, and local pride.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Miami Cubano Uncle Vibes – Cultural Appropriation and Identity

• The show opens with a playful debate about who in the crew best embodies the stereotypical "Cuban Theo" (uncle) at a Miami pig roast.
  • Dan marvels at how Greg Cody, with his weathered look, could easily pass for this South Floridian archetype:
    • Quote: “Greg Cody could absolutely pass as Cuban Theo. Better than even Zaslow.” (00:39, Dan)
  • Chris Cody and Dan both reminisce about mysterious uncles at family parties who say little and seem oddly out of place—a shared thread in Miami's multicultural families.

2. The Ultimate Miami Home Game—and Underdog Slights

• Dan rails against national pundits (namely Stephen A. Smith) for dismissing Miami's chances and for overlooking both the city's and program’s historic dominance at home.
  • Quote: “Miami wins that game always. Miami changes the fortunes of everything... When you bring it to Miami, throw the party at them... this is ‘Revenga.’ This is Scarface.” (03:27, Dan)
• Ticket Frenzy: The crew marvels at ticket demand, with even former Miami players unable to secure seats. Mike Ryan mentions seats going for six figures and speculates about corporate sponsors snatching them up. (08:12–08:39)
• Cuban Pride: The conversation highlights, with rare authenticity, how unique it is for Miami Cubans to see a coach (Cristobal) and quarterback (Mendoza) from the same local high school lead a team into a title game.
  • Chris Cody: “Cuban kids don’t get to turn on the TV and see kid that went to Columbus. Oh, that could be my cousin.” (09:39)

3. Vegas Line and National Perception

• Surprise and indignation abound at the fact that Miami is more than a touchdown underdog at home. Cue existential musings on football, reputation, and the recency bias of big wins.
  • “In what world... is Miami an overwhelming underdog to win a home game in Miami?” (06:19, Dan)
• Greg Cody attempts to ground the discussion with stats about past Miami national championships at the Orange Bowl vs. today’s split ticket setups. (07:18–07:51)

4. Matchup Analysis — Respect, Trash Talk, and Nub of the Debate

• Miami’s Path: The hosts detail Miami’s run through top-tier defenses and the recent (undervalued) triumphs over SEC blue bloods.
  • Mike Ryan: “Miami’s run through teams with top 10 defenses...these were great run defenses, and Miami just mano a mano won.” (17:20)
• Indiana’s Dominance: The panel discusses why Indiana is getting so much respect as an undefeated juggernaut, with playoff wins by a 34+ point margin.
  • “The perception...swung wildly with the results of the two semifinal games…38-3 over Alabama, I mean they humiliated.” (19:00, Jeremy)
• SEC Slander: Dan pushes back on the “SEC mystique”, sketching the relative mediocrity of the 2025 version of Alabama and Georgia.
  • “A victory over Alabama this year did not mean much and Georgia was running around in uniforms that were Georgia’s, but not the teams that you remember.” (20:05, Dan)

5. The ‘Premature Prediculation’ and Gambling Banter

• Greg Cody makes a bold "on the record" prediction of a Hurricane blowout (“straight up blowout for the Canes” - 21:03), prompting jokes about embargoed predictions and T-shirt merch ideas.
• Mike Ryan outlines predictable betting trends: public on Indiana, late “smart money” on Miami. (21:36–22:03)
  • “That’s not a prediction, that’s a spoiler.” (22:00, Mike Ryan)
• Jeremy and Mike tangle about the “writerly” versus “gut” view of the game—a classic Dan Le Batard Show split.

6. Mario Cristobal’s Journey and the Miami Football Business

• The story of Cristobal is painted as unlikely and uniquely Miami: FIU-to-Nike-to-Hurricane hero, local, relentless, “rabid Cuban” coaching legend.
  • “They sort of fake their way into...Program's hurting...Oh, squandered all of it. Can Columbus go get us 90 million for Cristobal? Why Cristobal? He failed at FIU. Why would you do that?...Fixes it in four years, plays in the championship game.” (23:37, Dan)
• The panel admires both Cristobal’s authenticity and his hard-nosed, “violent” playing style.
  • “If we’re playing a drinking game, the first round draft pick is violent.” (25:47, Jeremy)

7. Who’s Hungrier—A ‘Hungry Off’ for the Title

• The show morphs into a comedic debate over which fan base is hungrier for a title: Indiana (never been there) or Miami (20-year drought after decades of glory).
  • “How could they be hungrier?...They just started paying attention to football.” (36:23, Mike Ryan)
  • Dan: “It is a Hungry Off.” (36:54)
• Greg Cody tries (in vain) to make the Indiana case; Chris and Mike double down on Miami’s desperation for relevance.

8. Legacy, Localism, and Blind Spots

• The hosts self-examine their “pro-Miami” bias vs. national reputation, with Dan pushing back against the idea that he doesn't champion the U enough.
  • “Ask our national audience whether we're pro Miami enough.” (32:49, Dan)
• The segment closes with thoughts on ticket prices, how Inter Miami/MLS have made sports in the city less accessible, and how Miami sports history cannot be ignored in favor of recent narratives.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dan, on cultural appropriation and Miami football:
  “I sit right at the center of what is blatant, obvious, and offensive cultural appropriation. I can’t believe what I’m about to say. Zaslo looked great as a Cuban Theo yesterday, but Greg Cody somehow looked better.” (00:39)

• Greg Cody makes his bold prediction:
  “Straight up blowout for the Canes.” (21:03)
  “Sometimes I can't wait. Okay, so this is premature prediculation.” (21:31, Greg Cody)

• Mike Ryan delivers a gambling “spoiler”:
  “Here’s how this one’s going to go. 90% of the betting public is going to keep listening to the Stephen A. Smiths of the world and keep hammering Indiana minus seven and a half...That’s not a prediction, that’s a spoiler.” (21:36–22:00)

• On Mario Cristobal's mindset:
  “He's a psychopath about this. That's for other people to do...He will not rest till Miami reaches that standard.” (41:39, Mike Ryan)

• On representation in sport:
  “This is absolutely the most I’ve ever related to an athlete…that representation of a Cuban athlete from South Florida...Fernando Mendoza, thank you for representing Cubans like me.” (26:10, Guest Analyst)

• Comedy gold: “Hungry Off” and family feuds:

  • “It is a Hungry Off.” (36:54, Dan)
  • “You heard me.” (21:07, Greg Cody on prediction)
  • “Do I look like I'm effing around?” (22:35, Greg Cody)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:39–01:42: "Cuban Theo" comparison, family party archetypes
• 03:27–06:19: Miami home dominance, legacy, and Scarface references
• 07:18–08:39: Ticket madness and history of home-field advantage
• 09:24–10:29: Cuban/Miami pride in coach and QB
• 17:20–18:24: Miami's run-game analysis
• 21:03–22:03: Greg Cody’s bold prediction, betting line debate
• 25:10–25:47: Mario Cristobal's “violent” coaching, drinking game idea
• 36:54–37:03: "Hungry Off" debate
• 40:14–41:39: Legacy vs. present success for Miami, Cristobal’s journey

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Tone and Style

• The show’s tone is boisterous, hyperlocal, heartfelt, and slyly satirical—equal parts football bravado and cultural celebration/roast. Family banter and local in-jokes blend with savvy national sports analysis, producing both comedic and poignant moments. The hosts speak as unapologetic Miamians, constantly folding broader sports themes back to South Florida identity.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

• Expect an hour of Miami pride, skepticism at national narratives, inside jokes, high-level football analysis, and honest discussions of what makes sports emotional for a fanbase. You will come away with a sense of why Miami football matters so much, why these personalities care (and clash) so loudly, and how the culture of the city suffuses every debate—from ticket-panic to the meaning of a Cuban-American QB making it on the biggest stage.

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Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, yeah, Pablito.

[Mike Ryan]

What's good, bros?

[Chris Cody]

Two colas.

[Mike Ryan]

He's a guy who is a blank prick.

[Chris Cody]

I imagine it would be like your mama. Saludo.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hey, that's great to hear. How I do.

[Unidentified Host/Guest]

Guess what.

[Chris Cody]

We're doing the party. We're doing it at Bird Bowl.

[Dan LeBatard]

I love you, Miami. So no matter how you wrap it up in your fancy, happy music, I sit right at the center of what is blatant, obvious, and offensive cultural appropriation. I can't believe what I'm about to say. Zaslo looked great as a Cuban Theo yesterday, but Greg Cody somehow looked better. I'm not kidding you. When I. If I put Greg Cody next to a kajachina, 12 beers in, and I say, greg, just don't say anything. He is the coolest of the old Theos. He is.

[Jeremy]

He.

[Dan LeBatard]

He doesn't say anything. You don't know what's in. You don't know what's in his past, but he absolutely looks like a fusing right now of my grandfather and my uncle. He's bringing them back to life with the way that he looks. Greg Cody could absolutely pass as Cuban Theo. Better than even Zaslow.

[Unidentified Host/Guest]

Is it the beard?

[Dan LeBatard]

It's. It's the face. It's the entirety of the face. It's the age. It's battered by South Florida, sunshine and the Islands for 50 years.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know, Dan. The more I see Zaz, the more I'm transported into my childhood. Like, I know 11 guys that look exactly like that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Can we put them side to side? Please? Send out a photo and do a vote of who looks more like the Cupintillo who's not. Who's not saying anything at the barbecue. He's had too many drinks. He's sedated. He's been at this party this way every time we've gotten together for 30 straight years. Like, nobody knows him. He's super mysterious. He says nothing. He's just there for the drink and the smell of the pig that's dead in the backyard.

[Chris Cody]

He's Elijah.

[Guest Analyst]

Well.

[Chris Cody]

And I'm like, oh, I don't really know him. My mom told me to be careful with him, that he's a little weird.

[Dan LeBatard]

That I'm like, oh, I don't know past. He's never said anything in any of these parties. He just drinks, and there's pig there, and he's there to everyone, and he's family.

[Chris Cody]

I have one of these in my family. I'm not going to say his name to protect not Innocent.

[Dan LeBatard]

We all do.

[Mike Ryan]

But.

[Chris Cody]

But they were. I was like, hey, as a kid, they told me, don't go around him. Don't bring the kids around. I'm like, we don't know what. What is going on? Not in that way. We just don't know what's. What he's going to say.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right?

[Chris Cody]

We don't know what he's going to say.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm not comfortable with the cultural appropriation. I also am not comfortable with something else that's happening because the game has arrived. All right? My phone's never done this with tickets before, ever. And former players already complaining that they can't get tickets. That former players are like, whoa, Miami does the big event. Giant Miami always does the big event. Well, and this is the biggest of the big Miami events. This school mattering brings generations of bandwagon to the party. What do you mean? Miami can just pay attention for six or seven minutes and then gets to celebrate as the winners at the end because they weren't, you know, too busy wind surfing all. All weekend to pay attention to the local football team. That has always been a source of pride. I'm driving yesterday, and Stephen A. Smith is saying no manner of objectionable, hugely objectionable things about the world that I wanted to comment on every five minutes for the last two years. But finally he pissed me off yesterday when he's like, does Miami have a chance? Is this even gonna be a game like Indiana and Stephen A. You came sniffing college football three weeks ago. Don't try to pretend like, like you've been watching any of this. Miami's playing a home game for the championship. Do you people have no sense of history, of what that means? Miami wins that game always. Miami changes the fortunes of everything happening in football around here. When you bring it to Miami, throw the party at them and Indiana, have you played this? Have you played this size of crowd? Because you went to Iowa, and Iowa, you struggle. And Iowa. I was tough. And you went to Penn State. And Penn State was a failure this year, but that was tough. You've never seen this. This is Revenga. This is Scarface. This is. Do you remember the scene in the movie? The scene in the movie, the one we all love. 10 minutes of it was filmed in South Florida. And then they chased it out because our people are very powerful and said, get that racist shit out of here. Pacino doesn't sound Latin at all. And we ran that whole film off, but it's ours. And in the middle of that, Tony, you probably have family that Were in.

[Chris Cody]

Not in the Mariel boat lifts. But obviously everybody knew what was happening at that point. I did do a Tony's top five from that exact spot. And you were like, why are you there? And I'm like, damn. Because this is a massive piece of our history. This is Rivena. And then you're like, ah, it's not.

[Mike Ryan]

That big of a deal.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, it is a big deal in the movie because it's what you have to do to get to freedom from Cuba, even if it means killing somebody under a highway.

[Chris Cody]

Because again, it was part of the Cuban police.

[Dan LeBatard]

Though Daniel Power became a star here, and Pacino already was a star. Talk about cultural appropriations appropriation. But what the riots under the bridge. What did it sound like as Stephen Bauer roamed the premises with a shiv? So now imagine what Indiana. Indiana. Mendoza, Fernando.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on.

[Dan LeBatard]

That young man knows what he's returning to, right?

[Jeremy]

He'll have a lot of people there. That's why it's a home game for him as well as it is for the Hurricane.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want to give all the glory to God.

[Jeremy]

That's part of the reason why the. The. The point spread is an insult to the Hurricanes. It's an insult. The fact that it creeped up over seven points, that's an insult. Mario Crispo is playing that, man. He's playing it all week long.

[Mike Ryan]

He was playing that when they were favored. You're going into meetings saying they think we're going to lose by a million.

[Dan LeBatard]

How this gift is what I'm legitimately asking you guys. You've all. Mike keeps getting tired of me about the context in the history of the program, but when it comes to feeling like the U is back, you've been fighting for something. How in holy hell am I living in a universe where the world has made Miami an overwhelming underdog to win a home game in Miami? In. In what? In what world? Like, I understand how many people would look at the last two games and just say, indiana is going to ransack everyone. They're undefeated. It's hard to go undefe. But have you no sense of history when you think of every time the championship comes to Miami to be played by Miami, by a Miami team, you know, that's as good as this one that has pros on the field. That Miami team wins at home against everybody who's ever played college football, even the very highest of the sport, which Indiana hasn't been, except for the last five minutes.

[Greg Cody]

So I'm. I need a little bit of help with this because I was too young. I'm pretty sure what the Canes, three of their first four national championships came after wins in the orange bowl, right?

[Jeremy]

Three of five.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, yeah, three of five. Right. But three of the first four, you know, from 83 to 91. And I'm curious, I feel like back then those games in the OB was probably 90 plus percent Keynes fans. That's not going to be the case for this game. It's. It's a home game, but it's going to be closer to 50. 50, right.

[Mike Ryan]

You would imagine, I mean, that that's what the national championship game in a neutral site is supposed to legislate. Basically. 25% allotment goes to Miami Hurricanes, 25% allotment goes to the Indiana Hoosiers, 20% goes to corporate, and then the remaining percentages go to the primary market. And as we've seen, some of those tickets already got snagged up and you're getting insane prices.

[Greg Cody]

I got a plan for today, by the way.

[Dan LeBatard]

My phone has never done this. My phone, what it is presently doing. My phone has never done outreach from all over the place to get tickets to this game.

[Greg Cody]

Call them Schnorrs.

[Mike Ryan]

You know, the SE that I sit at usually I don't have access to those golden cane seats, obviously.

[Greg Cody]

Do you know who's going to be in your seats?

[Mike Ryan]

I know what they're going for.

[Greg Cody]

No, but like, who? Like, I don't know, a major corporate sponsor.

[Mike Ryan]

No, but like, this is. It's six figures. It's what those seats are going for. Just, Just for this game.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wasn't Mark Cuban saying he wanted a discount on the tickets struggling?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, he was talking. He was talking to Connor Stallions. Weird.

[Dan LeBatard]

The other thing at the center of this that makes it so fun is Miami. All of Miami can bandwagon around the big event. And this part makes me smile because of how ridiculous it is. The Cubans never get to feel this about their guys in sports. The Cubans always are fighting to maybe be a reliever in baseball or even pitch in the World Series, but they never get to be the star of the biggest football game in America's sport. Never, ever do the Cubans ever get to feel what they have in this game, which is. Are you shitting me? The coach and the quarterback went to the same high school.

[Mike Ryan]

It's in Miami. It's crazy how the stars have a line for Indiana to be with a Cuban quarterback that went to Columbus, the same high school as the Cuban head coach of the Miami Hurricanes to be playing A national title game in Miami, Florida. You couldn't write a better script.

[Chris Cody]

This never happens for us. And that's all I was saying the other day at the. At the mural. This never happens for us. Cuban kids don't get to turn on the TV and see kid that went to Columbus. Oh, that could be my cousin. A guy that went to Columbus, that went through all the stuff that your parents went through as second generations in this country, we never get to see that on tv. Right now.

[Guest Analyst]

We get to see it live and.

[Chris Cody]

In color for the biggest stage. Indiana Bagego Partee.

[Jeremy]

That's the weird dynamic about this game. If this was Ole Miss against Indiana in Hard Rock Stadium, Mendoza and Indiana would be the team. They would be worshipped. Mendoza would be worshiped in South Florida this week. But because it's Miami, there's no losing team here. If I look at it neutrally as a journalist, there's no bad story to write off this game because it's two wonderful stories.

[Dan LeBatard]

My thought, though, placing all of those elements in front of you, not even just the cube and parts of it, like, what's the context in the last 50 years, outside of the first time they played Nebraska, the first championship they won because Tom Osborne went for two when a tie would have given him the championship, failed to get a two starts, the Miami dynasty, and all the time in there. When do I get to make Miami after all this excellence, this kind of underdog where Stephen A. Is asking whether this can even be a competitive game. When it's a game in my. When it's a game in Miami. And if that's ever happened, we've seen the very beginning of this. Didn't quite have all the pros that when it was Portis and Gore and McGahey in the same huddle or the secondaries, Sean Taylor and Ed Reed. This isn't that. This. This is not that they do not have all the pros on one team, but the idea that this team is here, this program is here, and you've seen physically what they've done to the last three teams they've played in what world is that a touchdown? Underdog viewed by America to not have a chance in the game, the world.

[Guest Analyst]

In which Indiana has won their two College Football Playoff games by an average of 34 1/2 points per game? Daniel, like the way we have watched Miami all season, we have watched the way that they've improved. We have watched all of that. But everyone else is looking at Indiana, rightfully so, as an undefeated team that has physically dominated every other team that they've played.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Unidentified Host/Guest]

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[Guest Analyst]

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[Mike Ryan]

I'm not going to apologize.

[Jeremy]

I wouldn't expect you to apologize.

[Mike Ryan]

Then.

[Jeremy]

You're a giant infant, okay? You have no control over your emotions. You have no control over your emotions when you're calling someone, you know an idiot. I don't deserve it.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay?

[Jeremy]

I don't deserve it.

[Mike Ryan]

All right?

[Jeremy]

And you're a fool for saying it.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, Stu, you were a fool.

[Jeremy]

I was kind of following you.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, you're locking in right now. You're locking in on us.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

All right.

[Unidentified Host/Guest]

Let's drop it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Gloves, pal. Let's rock.

[Mike Ryan]

You should be thanking me.

[Jeremy]

For what?

[Mike Ryan]

Every day.

[Jeremy]

For what.

[Mike Ryan]

For what I've done around this character. And the second shit gets real for you, you want to come at me.

[Dan LeBatard]

And call me a fool, huh?

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no.

[Dan LeBatard]

Seriously, Jeremy.

[Mike Ryan]

Seriously, pal. I've added 10 years to your career.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Lebatar show with the stugats.

[Greg Cody]

I think it's ridiculous that they're a seven and a half or eight and a half point favorite as well. But to that point, it does make more sense that they are that. As opposed to the line being a lot closer to even.

[Mike Ryan]

You mentioned the line. You know, the last time Miami lost a game by more than seven points, it was 2023 against NC State. Tyler Van Dyke had his meltdown. We said with teams with lesser Miami teams that. Teams that have this advantage along the line of scrimmage, historically in college football, they do not get blown out. And I understand why people are gassing Indiana up. They've been incredible. That stat where Mendoza has eight touchdowns and five incompletions.

[Greg Cody]

And the cheating part, right?

[Mike Ryan]

I'm not. I'm not going there. But Miami's prepared.

[Dan LeBatard]

Put it on the poll at Levitar show. Is Indiana cheating and is Miami prepared for that?

[Mike Ryan]

Prepared for the cheating?

[Guest Analyst]

Maybe they're cheating by giving all the glory to God.

[Mike Ryan]

Miami's run through teams with top 10 defenses, especially against the rush. Throughout this entire run, Tony circulated the set. That's all out there about the difference in size Miami is. That's the whole thing about cheating and knowing what the plays are. We can tell you the script. Miami's got to run a gap. Ohio State was prepared for a gap. You know, Texas A and M was prepared for a gap. And these were great run defenses. And Miami just mano a mano one.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's the revenga. It's the play. The play is not a gap. You're calling it a gap with all your fancy coaching jargon because you insist on being an offensive coordinator. Here's the play. Indiana cheat this Trevenga right behind Por Emilio. Right? Right. And yes, I've heard that Levitard whimpering right outside. Right outside. No revenge. Right up. Right up the middle. It's going to be second and three all game. Dan's going to complain about the tush push over here, but he's going to love it when Those canes get 8 yards because their offensive line is just thrown FLETCHER 8 yards.

[Chris Cody]

And I did call for the execution of a guard on the Buffalo Bills by the electric chair. But if Inez Cooper wants to pick up Mark Fletcher and go 15 yards, we will celebrate that.

[Mike Ryan]

I will say, listening to this show for the last few months, the analysis when it comes to how Miami is going to go about these games have been pretty on the nose. And the game that we were nervous about was Ole Miss because they did things that neutralized Miami's pass rush. They were more effective at getting home on the quarterback than Miami was in that game. Why Chambliss gets rid of the ball quick, that proved to be a very real thing. Heath gets rid of the ball at 2.42 seconds a clip. Mendoza holds onto that ball longer than three seconds.

[Jeremy]

The perception, though, of the championship game swung wildly with the results of the two semifinal games. Right. I mean Miami barely gets by ole miss and 38 three over Alabama. I mean they humiliated.

[Mike Ryan]

What Greg is saying is right. Quantifiably. The advance line on draftkings for an Indiana Miami neutral field matchup in the CFP final was five and a half.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

And it ballooned up to seven and a half. That's a big two points immediately after that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. But I keep doing this and I feel like I must be using too many words and not communicating anything well. Okay. The Alabama team that they're getting so much credit for it's almost. It seems like so long ago that Alabama team went to FSU to start the season and lost by two touchdowns. An FSU team that wasn't any good. An FSU team that I think ends up losing its last. Did they lose their last night? An FSU team that has lost the state that is fighting over football presently to play against Indiana. I don't have it wrong. Right. Like.

[Jeremy]

No, you're right. I mean I'm not saying Alabama is a great team.

[Dan LeBatard]

No. But 38 to 3 Alabama got in on reputation. Alabama got in because we get think of the SEC a certain way. To me a victory over Alabama this year did not mean much and Georgia was running around in uniforms that were Georgia's. But that's not the teams that you remember. All of the things in the sec, all of them were. They were.

[Guest Analyst]

Okay, so including Ole Miss then.

[Dan LeBatard]

Ole Miss included. Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

Styles make fights. Transitive property is kind of dumb in this sport. And I think we know how this game is going to look like it's going to be violent. And when you're in a rock fight. Get out of here with 30 point spreads. That's not the way that this game is going to go. They're going to have to. They're an execution team. They're going to have to play a clean game Indiana to win this game. It's entirely possible that Miami plays a sloppy game. We just saw it. They survived in spite of that. But I don't. I don't see how this game's a blow up but historically in the national title game it's either a favorite covers by a lot or a dog wins.

[Greg Cody]

Straight up blowout for the Canes.

[Dan LeBatard]

What?

[Greg Cody]

You heard me.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, are you saying it on the record?

[Greg Cody]

Stutter.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, wait a minute. Are you predict. Is this what you're saying now?

[Greg Cody]

On the record law for the Canes?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

He's a journalist.

[Dan LeBatard]

What you're predicting you're on the record now. As you're Zaslow, ESPN college football game analyst, your predictions hold embargo bake all week, and then you unleash them at the end of the week. And it matters what you say.

[Greg Cody]

Sometimes I can't wait.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, so this is premature prediculation.

[Mike Ryan]

Here's how this one's going to go. 90% of the betting public is going to keep listening to the Stephen A. Smiths of the world and keep hammering Indiana minus seven and a half. That line will probably balloon up to close to nine.

[Greg Cody]

Good.

[Mike Ryan]

Keep going. And then before kickoff, that line is going to steam down one and a half to two points. And then you're going to know, because they know.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, that's when the smart money comes in. Two days before kickoff, that line's gonna drop below seven.

[Mike Ryan]

And that's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

[Greg Cody]

Pretty smart money's right here. Put your life savings on the canes.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, so are there T shirts here? Then you're gonna know. Cause they know. Like, there is. There. There's a gambling T shirt.

[Mike Ryan]

Seems like a bad shirt.

[Dan LeBatard]

It doesn't seem like a bad shirt. Okay. Because it felt like that's what you were telling us right there.

[Mike Ryan]

You're giving me a million times, seen this game a million times.

[Dan LeBatard]

This game a million times.

[Mike Ryan]

This line is going to steam down, and everyone's going to be like, what's happening here?

[Greg Cody]

You know, manhandle them.

[Dan LeBatard]

You've seen this game a million times. Those on the record. That's okay. So on Tuesday.

[Mike Ryan]

Yep.

[Greg Cody]

Do I look like I'm effing around?

[Dan LeBatard]

No, you do not. I will get with Greg Cody here and get his thoughts on all of this in a second. But we really are going to have, annoying as it is, a week of build up to this funny Miami event. And funny, I mean, the business of sports is such that five years ago, we weren't paying anyone, and now it's salary caps. And can your $21 million payroll beat Ohio State's $21 million payroll? All of this, like, just to see the finances of this result in Miami in four years. Cristobal, Columbus. Cristobal and Columbus buying their way into business. They got a life wallet guy over here who's a bogus billionaire. And it starts with, they sort of fake their way into. Ooh. Program is on its last legs here. Program's hurting. Program hasn't mattered in 20 years. Oh, squandered all of it. Can Columbus go get us 90 million for Cristobal? Why Cristobal? He failed at FIU. Why would you do that? That's idiotic. That's, oh. 90 million for Cristobal. Fixes it in four years, plays in the championship game. They won their way to the top of the business. Why do I think that's funny?

[Jeremy]

It's weird, I give you that. But Crispball proved himself at Oregon. I mean, it's not like he didn't have a track record.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg, this doesn't get to happen. When you think of the people who win championships, okay, they don't get to be this guy. They don't get to be the guy who. Who had to climb his way up through fiu. Nevermind the Cuban part of it. Who's still got the balls to go on television at Saban because he's worked with the best and now bosses around Jason Taylor. Bosses around Jason Taylor. I bet you if I talk to Jason Taylor, he'd tell me right now he's a little scared of that crazy Cuban. Legitimately scared of him, because he's a lunatic.

[Mike Ryan]

These guys typically don't get fired at programs like fiu.

[Dan LeBatard]

For Jason Taylor, hall of Famer to say, I'll get to coaching by being the guy who coaches your defensive ends. Yes, I want to learn from this rabid Cuban. I want to get a shortcut to coaching here, learn Miami style. Oh, this guy ran FIU's business. How'd that get into a bowl game? Oh, then he got to run Nike's business. Oregon still trying to be as relevant as they like. They're still trying to do.

[Mike Ryan]

Rest assured, coaching defensive line for several years under Mario Cristobal is no shortcut.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look, man, Lane Kiffin ran away from Saban. Cristobal got in a, you know, four point stance and let. Let's go, Saban. Give me some more. I'll. I'll. I'll eat your. I'll eat your eyebrows, Saban. You trim your eyebrows.

[Jeremy]

I admire Cristobal. I think he's real. I think he's a real guy. I think when he uses words like relentless and violent as a style of play, he means it. I think his players have bought into it.

[Dan LeBatard]

That part's funny, isn't it? That every. Every interview he does like, for sure, right? If I could get betting on the pregame interview, he's going to say the word violent. Yes, the word. Whatever. The question is the answer. One of the words. If I could take bets on this right now, we're going to do a live stream during the championship game and I want to figure out how to Be able to somehow do bets on this. For sure. In the pregame, the betting odds would be favored to say whatever the question is. Mario Cristobal will bite it off in one sentence, and that sentence will have the word violent in it.

[Jeremy]

If we're playing a drinking game, the first round draft pick is violent.

[Guest Analyst]

That's.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's. Let's play the drinking game. Let's do that on Monday night during our livestream. Mass kicks ass. That's. That. That's. And that's going up against sweet local kid Fernando Mendoza.

[Guest Analyst]

I've never seen myself in an athlete more than Fernando Mendoza.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, man. I'm just noticing your shirt right now. You're bullshit. What are you doing wearing that?

[Guest Analyst]

No, this is. This is absolutely the most I've ever related to an athlete that. That representation of a Cuban athlete from South Florida. The starched, all the glory to God smile on my face. Like, that's. That's the way I always approach the game. I'm going out there, I'm working hard. I'm playing for my teammates. It's the name on the front, not the name on the back. Fernando Mendoza. Thank you for representing Cubans like me.

[Mike Ryan]

How we doing here?

[Jeremy]

If you shave, he would look like Mendoza.

[Guest Analyst]

If he shaved, it's not a bit. By the way, audience, Jeremy is Cuban.

[Mike Ryan]

But what are we doing? They made it to the national championship game. You're gonna just keep going until the very end. Just doing this thing, whatever it is.

[Guest Analyst]

Supporting a local kid who has an unbelievable story, who's made it. Look at that face. How charming is that?

[Mike Ryan]

You're being a hating ass hater.

[Guest Analyst]

Hating ass hater.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. If this were. If this were Oregon, I guarantee you you'd be dressed like Phil Knight.

[Unidentified Host/Guest]

Be kind of cool.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you not learned?

[Guest Analyst]

Have I not learned what?

[Mike Ryan]

Have you not learned?

[Greg Cody]

Have you not learned?

[Mike Ryan]

The last two months have been you forcibly eating it. Like they've been running it up your a gap for two months.

[Guest Analyst]

I'm pretty sure everything that I said was right.

[Mike Ryan]

Everything that you said was right. You said that James Madison should be in over Miami.

[Guest Analyst]

I said James Madison should be in and they earned it.

[Mike Ryan]

Jeremy, you said Miami should be in, out.

[Jeremy]

Got to want to learn. Got to want to learn.

[Guest Analyst]

There were some teams that earned their way by winning championships.

[Dan LeBatard]

For a moment, grab Mike by the collar because it's Tuesday and I want to settle everybody down. Okay. Because the week began with the. The week began with Billy Corbin, and if we still go, it's going to.

[Mike Ryan]

End with Billy Corbin too.

[Dan LeBatard]

If.

[Chris Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

Smear.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Fair enough.

[Chris Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

How about that?

[Chris Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard. You are a fool.

[Jeremy]

You're nobody.

[Mike Ryan]

You are an infant.

[Dan LeBatard]

You have nobody. I literally put together Mike Ryan stage for your toenail. I am your career right now, pal.

[Guest Analyst]

Look at me.

[Dan LeBatard]

No. I am your career.

[Mike Ryan]

No stugats.

[Dan LeBatard]

You have messed with McDavid and now.

[Mike Ryan]

You'Re messing with me.

[Dan LeBatard]

And I'm more dangerous, pal. This is the Dan Levatar show with these two gods. I just don't both have fun. Jeremy. No, I want. I want to do this with you. I simply want to give you the space to do it. Because Mike is taking his victory lap aggressively. He. He. He has been right about the things Miami is. They did about everything down rep. Reputationally.

[Mike Ryan]

Let me help you out. Been right about everything.

[Dan LeBatard]

If I'm wrong about the SEC being a fraud, I may indeed be wrong about that. But they beat the three teams at the top of the food chain and they.

[Mike Ryan]

You're not wrong about that. Because I was saying that months ago and I was right about everything.

[Jeremy]

And 2414.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right.

[Dan LeBatard]

And maybe or maybe not, they would have beaten Georgia. And maybe or maybe not, the analysis would have been, oh, yeah, I remember Georgia's the best of the sec. No, it's just another team in the sec like Missouri, like Vanderbilt. It was just another conference as soon as the business got involved with all of this. And there are 16 teams. You think Texas and Oklahoma are one thing and they're just. Everybody's in this game now, including Indiana because the business of this happened fast.

[Mike Ryan]

Everybody isn't in this game. There are two teams in this game. They're gonna spot the ball and Mass is gonna kick ass. Yeah, that's what's gonna happen.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, but. So I'd like to get Jeremy's thoughts as you want to run up the score on Jeremy on being right. Why? Because you said you.

[Mike Ryan]

His thoughts are bad.

[Dan LeBatard]

He corrected you on those bad thoughts. Not a fan. I want bad thoughts. I want Facts from him. Jeremy was making a reasonable argument on behalf of the country. Mike, Mike, I don't think that you see some of the blind spots we have as a show, okay. Because yesterday on the show, you looked me in the face and you said Columbus High said of me in this show. Yeah, Dan, you're viewed as not pro Miami enough blind spots. Ask our national audience whether we're pro Miami enough or not. Like you think I represent.

[Mike Ryan]

No. You in particular.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. All right. So I don't think we are.

[Dan LeBatard]

You don't have.

[Mike Ryan]

We're just located.

[Jeremy]

So all that matters is what Mario thinks of you.

[Mike Ryan]

And the thing about blind spots, Dan, is they're behind you. I got my eyes forward. All right. I got Hard Rock Stadium, January 19th. I don't have an obstructed view of that adelante.

[Guest Analyst]

Am I right?

[Dan LeBatard]

So the ticket prices and I just. I locally, during difficult times, difficult economic times, I think inter Miami priced enough real fandom out and look, it was a big championship won in Miami and congratulations. But in the places that corporations and communities and ethnic feelings come together in sports like this, this is crazy. What we're in the center of right now. And the amount of requests I'm getting for tickets and the idea that former players, legends like this, this. This place has a lot of legends. They'd like tickets. They want to know that they could be on the sideline. It not everyone gets to have Ray Lewis and Edger and James bring him out for a coin toss. Unless you think these things not matter in the present age. Okay. When Netflix went to get their best Washington player on Christmas Day. Here, look, here's the past. Here's Emmett Smith on behalf of the Cowboys because he's the best they'll ever have. Who do we get from Washington? Who do we get from Washington? Oh, oh, Portis one. Oh, yeah. Portis is the best. They got a guy in a huddle with McGahey and Gore because those Miami teams, they were Alabama before Alabama. All of the context matter and it brings you to this moment. And a team in a program and a quarterback who has never seen this like Miami ravages every Heisman trophy winner who comes through Miami thinking it's the best throughout history. Are you going to tell me, am I being an idiot and shortsighted and homorific when I tell you how do the last two games matter to you more than the last 40 years? You tell me, am I being the idiot? Am I being emotional when I say don't tell me about Indiana's last two games. Tell me about Miami's last 40 years in the brutal sport that births this caveman Cuban who's like Rebenga Acap. Let's go. I'll fight you in the middle of the stage. And if Saban wants to criticize me, drove there. Him too.

[Mike Ryan]

Jeremy and I have common ground here. Stop being a writer. Yeah, just. You're being a writer too much, dude.

[Guest Analyst]

Yeah, the last 40 years, like, the last 20 years has none of that. So it's not like. Like, that context that you're trying to apply to it is irrelevant. These last two games of Indiana, like, this Miami team is spectacular. And what they've done this season is. Is what should make you believe that they can stomp this Indiana team. If they do not what happened 25, 30, 40 years ago. It should be this team. That's the one place Mike and I kind of tend to agree here.

[Mike Ryan]

For the fans. When Mark Fletcher lines up in the pistol formation, he's not thinking about Melvin Bratton. He's thinking about five yards.

[Jeremy]

Right? It's also fair to say, though, that. That however much Miami and the Hurricanes are hungry for this, Indiana is hungrier. It's been like. Like the drought here is. It's a hungry off 24 years.

[Chris Cody]

How could they be hungry? How could they be hungrier?

[Jeremy]

I'm hung because the drought here is.

[Mike Ryan]

They just started paying attention to football.

[Jeremy]

Get out here. The drought here is 24 years. The drought in Indiana is like forever.

[Mike Ryan]

They never knew success.

[Chris Cody]

It's a basketball state.

[Greg Cody]

Are you talking about the fans? Because the players.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, get. Get Indiana. You're not playing the tortured fan base card here, all right? I saw what those crowds looked like three years ago, and you could say the very same to me. But in our crowd, there were five banners. At least. You know the whole cliche about it. It's better to never have been rich at all. What the hell was that?

[Guest Analyst]

Someone's tummy.

[Unidentified Host/Guest]

Who's Hungry Dan?

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, it is a hungry off.

[Chris Cody]

It is.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is good.

[Jeremy]

It's a hungry off.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's a hungry Alf. Distract myself.

[Jeremy]

Who wants it more?

[Dan LeBatard]

Let's see who's hungrier, Indiana or Miami?

[Mike Ryan]

It's just like we were there, we tasted it, and we've been a joke for 20 years. Like, this is fun. I'm not saying that you don't want it. I'm just saying your torture is. I don't like it. Stop it.

[Dan LeBatard]

I do like, though it is a hungry off. That's what just happened. Look you guys all just turned on Greg Cohen. You turned on him.

[Jeremy]

It's okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

Great. No. Is it okay?

[Jeremy]

I got alligator skin.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg. Greg.

[Jeremy]

Come at me.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg. Cody volunteered for America and you all chewed his face off. He espoused the opinion of Indiana's the hungrier team and you guys rejected it and you said, no, we're hungrier. And now we have. And Chris. Don't push Chris off of this. He's right to do this to you. We have a Hungry Off. You think you can do a better game show than that? Do you think that you can do a better game show?

[Mike Ryan]

I do.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't believe you can.

[Mike Ryan]

I think that's a sound. I think we will.

[Dan LeBatard]

I dare you. No, I. Look, I want to do a Hungry off his game show. Now you're promising me that later in today's show you could do something better than a Hungry off. Because that's where I want to go right now with Chris Cody. And you've been aggressive and you've been aggressive for two days and the victory lap has started with you being super arrogant.

[Mike Ryan]

I can promise that we will raise expectations and fall well below them with our own game show.

[Guest Analyst]

I do think it's funny that we're taking victory laps just by getting to the championship game as opposed to winning one.

[Mike Ryan]

You mean going. We spent the whole week doing it? No, I. I am a little bit. Because Miami has beaten Notre Dame, Ohio State, Florida, Florida State on their path to this very game. Who's Indiana beat? A game in a tournament that they said Miami didn't belong in. The same people that are saying that Miami didn't. Doesn't have a chance against Indiana. We're saying that Notre Dame would beat Miami had they played again because Miami.

[Dan LeBatard]

Lost to SMU and Louisville.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna enjoy it. I got a couple more days to lock in and get in game mode. But excuse me if I feel myself and my head coach and enjoy being right for the last few months. I'm just. Because I've been in hell.

[Guest Analyst]

You got the opportunity in a new version of a playoff where the teams that never would have made it before get to make it now. Congratulations. I'm excited for you. It's cool. Your team got hot at the right time.

[Mike Ryan]

You're not happy for me? Nobody.

[Guest Analyst]

I am.

[Dan LeBatard]

I am jack shit over here.

[Chris Cody]

Jack shit doesn't know jack shit.

[Mike Ryan]

I literally almost took off my shoe and threw. It just had been.

[Dan LeBatard]

Please make this character on the show. Please make. I wouldn't. Would like to hear at Some point from Jeremy is only Jack. Okay? The character Jack is the only one I want speaking to me. You guys are. You got. That was your actual stomach I just heard.

[Jeremy]

No, it couldn't.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg.

[Guest Analyst]

I mean, we can't hear you talk.

[Dan LeBatard]

Unfortunately, our audio's not good enough in here. But comedically, I'm telling you, that was perfect. The stomach of Greg Cody just made the coffee sounds. And Greg, Greg, you've eaten nothing today.

[Jeremy]

Correcting swords is what we call that.

[Dan LeBatard]

I heard your stomach.

[Jeremy]

Pardon me.

[Dan LeBatard]

I wanted to do a hungry off. I do think it would be funny. It seems like it's something that would delight Chris Cody. The. The idea, though, that we're looking. You guys are sort of rejecting the entire history of this. To me, I don't. I mean, I know about the.

[Mike Ryan]

Now focused on. On that I'm focused on Indiana, but I.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, okay, okay. But you don't believe at all in the. If you're buying a coach to instill the culture of whatever the culture is that he learned from Jimmy Johnson to be a man who devotes his life to winning a championship in this sport. Okay, like, I don't. This is all story. It's all tapestry. I understand. But like you say, this matters so much to Mario Cristobal to come from to a program where you know what the standard is? It's higher than ever that Signetti ever had. Indiana has never been this. I don't know how many years they've been playing football, but it has not been with this as its history. And Bones, it doesn't mean anything if Mendoza completes 85% of his passes for three touchdowns and they. And they drag you. But I'm not just telling a story here. When I say Mario Cristobal has been here and he's been teaching these people about how he's been here, and that's the job he was paid to do, and he devoted himself to it to be heir to Jimmy Johnson and these and these things. So if he's the man you think he is, and you know how he cares. It's not irrelevant that Mario Cristobal is like. What do you mean? Signetti thinks he's better and cares more about this than I do. What do you mean? He's the highest paid coach in the game. When with $90 million in four years, I built this and now it flexes on you. And now it's a gap. You tell me that means nothing afterwards.

[Mike Ryan]

It might. He's singularly focused. He's a psychopath about this. That's for other people to do. Like he understands. It certainly made Mario Cristobal who he is. He knows what the standard is. He will not rest till Miami reaches that standard. But it doesn't. He's not an ego monster like that, I guarantee you. He's a very peculiar dude in that way. He's just so singularly focused on making tackles, building trenches, like talent acquisition. He's weird.