Eli Manning implores teams to 'lose with grace' after Miami's postgame antics: 'Doing nothing is OK'

Sadness astir losing the nationalist title turned into vexation for astatine slightest 1 subordinate of the Miami Hurricanes.

After the timepiece deed zeroes, Canes prima Mark Fletcher Jr. was caught connected the ESPN broadcast taking a plaything astatine Hoosiers antiaircraft lineman Tyrique Tucker. Players and unit from some schools had to travel betwixt the competitors earlier the contented escalated further.

Carson Beck was besides criticized for his postgame actions. Beck was seen moving disconnected the tract without gathering his opponents for a postgame handshake.

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Eli Manning of the New York Giants walks disconnected the tract successful the 4th fourth during the NFC Wild Card crippled against the Green Bay Packers astatine Lambeau Field connected Jan. 8, 2017 successful Green Bay, Wisconsin.   (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

Eli Manning felt for Beck and Fletcher, considering chaos ensues aft specified high-magnitude games.

"When the timepiece hits zero, it's thousands of radical moving onto the tract and they're bringing retired stages, and it's a concern where, you know, usually you get to benignant of spell connected the tract and spot antithetic radical and bent out. This one, it's a precise antithetic situation. You're benignant of astir rushed off. ‘Hey, you gotta get off, we privation the champions connected here.’ So I recognize the situation," Manning told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

Miami Hurricanes moving backmost Mark Fletcher Jr. (4) rushes for a touchdown against the Indiana Hoosiers successful the 2nd fractional during the College Football Playoff National Championship crippled astatine Hard Rock Stadium connected Jan. 19, 2026. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

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Manning was ever connected the winning extremity of those types of games, going 4-0 successful league title games and Super Bowls combined. So possibly helium whitethorn not beryllium the champion idiosyncratic for advice. But Manning has inactive mislaid playoff games successful the past and knows what it’s similar to conscionable privation to spell inside.

"It's ne'er easy. You know, you’re moving each twelvemonth agelong to effort to triumph a title and you're yet successful that situation, and it's devastating. It's devastating to not triumph that situation," Manning said.

But helium did person immoderate advice.

"Sometimes, doing thing is OK, alternatively than acting retired making a large scene," Manning added. "So that’s conscionable portion of sports. You gotta triumph with grace, you gotta suffer with grace and benignant of grip some things the aforesaid way."

Miami backmost Carson Beck passes against Indiana during the archetypal fractional of the College Football Playoff nationalist title game, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, successful Miami Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Beck aboriginal reflected connected his lone play with the Hurricanes, calling it the champion twelvemonth of his life.

"And not due to the fact that we made the nationalist championship, not due to the fact that won a clump of shot games oregon we made large plays oregon things of that sort. Man, for me, my full full beingness changed," helium said.

"You know, 365 days ago, I was successful conscionable a truly acheronian place, and I was trying to spot the airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel. It was a truly hard thing. There was conscionable a batch going on, mentally, physically, emotionally, to beryllium capable to conflict and combat done the roller-coaster that beingness is."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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