Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt was incredibly ecstatic to watch the College Football Playoff national championship play out Monday night, which saw the Indiana Hoosiers beat the Miami Hurricanes 27-21 to conclude the college football season.
Klatt has followed college football for 24 years (including his years as a player) and has never seen anything like Indiana's singular undefeated season.
"This might have been one of the most consequential championships that I’ve seen in my lifetime in college football because we don’t often get new blood in this sport,” Klatt said on "The Joel Klatt Show." "In fact, it’s exceedingly rare to get a team to a point where they can go and win that school’s first national championship."
Now it has opened the door for other teams whose football history may be similar to the Hoosiers to try to duplicate.
"I can’t get over how big this is for college football because, now, every school and every fan in the country, wherever you are listening to this, and whoever you root for, wherever you went to school, you feel like you have a shot," Klatt said.
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Klatt said now the formula to win right away is pretty simple, regardless of what school it is.
“We’re one coach away," Klatt said. "We’re one recruiting class, one transfer portal window away from competing at the highest level. We have never had this amount of parity in our sport.”
Whether this new trend of dominance by teams like Indiana continues is unclear, but Klatt recognizes the narrative has since shifted.
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Only time will tell.
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