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Seeing the Indiana University Hoosiers win the College Football Playoff National Championship Monday night was the culmination of a season filled with notable lessons. Here are a few from my perspective: 1. In sports -- as in many other matters -- the experts are often wrong. The same people who tried to justify the exclusion of Notre Dame from the college football playoffs dissed Indiana all season long, including leading up to and throughout the playoffs and even just before the national championship game. They were wrong about the talent, toughness and tenacity of the Indiana team generally. They were wrong about the team’s 2024 season being a “fluke.” They were wrong about the “weak” teams Indiana beat in 2025 during its regular season and the players’ readiness to face “tough” teams like Alabama in the Rose Bowl (Indiana 38 - Alabama 3) and Oregon in the Peach Bowl (Indiana 56 - Oregon 22). They were wrong about Hoosier coach Curt Cignetti’s ability to take the “losingest” team in college football history to the playoffs and the national championship.
Read moreJarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.”
Read moreAn Oklahoma State University employee who generated national controversy for reported discrimination against a conservative student remains employed by the university, according to OSU’s response to an open-records request.
Read moreMonday marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans to judge one another by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. It is a legacy rooted in a specific historical struggle -- one that culminated in the Civil Rights Act after years of fierce resistance, largely from Southern Democrats, to dismantling Jim Crow.
Read moreIn recent years, Oklahoma colleges have served a growing number of students from other states. At the University of Oklahoma, a majority of freshmen are non-residents for the second consecutive year, and a near-majority of OU freshmen were from other states or countries in prior years.
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Read moreThere are no flotillas on the way to save Iran. No Soros-funded “democracy” groups pressuring Western governments to intervene on behalf of civilians who are being arrested and murdered. No astroturfing movement demanding economic boycotts.
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