Trump congratulates Indiana and Miami ahead of CFP national title showdown: 'May the best team win!'

President Donald Trump offered congratulations to Indiana and Miami up of their College Football Playoff title showdown successful Florida connected Monday night, which helium is expected to be alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

In a connection released by the White House, the president said assemblage shot reflects "our timeless American values of family, freedom, unity, and hard work," calling it a awesome of the nation’s "spirit." 

President Donald Trump attends the 126th Army-Navy Game betwixt the Army Black Knights and the Navy Midshipmen astatine M&T Bank Stadium successful Baltimore, Maryland, connected Dec. 13, 2025. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

"For much than 150 years, assemblage shot has been a cherished fixture successful American culture.  Every autumn and winter, monolithic crowds flock to stadiums successful assemblage towns each crossed our Nation to witnesser the epic show of loyalty, rivalry, tradition, and determination individuality erupting passim the stands and connected the tract below.  From the precise archetypal collegiate matchup successful 1869, our country’s emotion of this storied Saturday ritual has been passed down from 1 procreation to the adjacent and endured arsenic an iconic American institution," his connection read. 

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"At its best, assemblage shot reflects our timeless American values of family, freedom, unity, and hard enactment and represents the pinnacle of our nationalist spirit."

Trump, who has go an expected fixture astatine sporting events successful some his archetypal and 2nd term, wished some teams luck arsenic Indiana makes its archetypal quality successful the nationalist rubric crippled nether second-year manager Curt Cignetti, and Miami seeks its sixth rubric and archetypal successful implicit 25 years. 

"Melania and I congratulate the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes connected making it to the College Football Playoff National Championship. God bless the talented players and dedicated coaches, the families who emotion and enactment them, and the faithful fans who cheer them on. May the champion squad win!"

Trump has made sports a precedence successful his 2nd term, some arsenic a substance of argumentation and idiosyncratic interest.

President Donald Trump walks onto the tract with Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland, Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy astatine West Point, left, and Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, right, unseen, earlier the commencement of the 126th Army-Navy NCAA assemblage shot crippled astatine M&T Bank Stadium, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, successful Baltimore. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

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In February, helium signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" enforcement order, which prompted the NCAA to update its argumentation the pursuing time to bounds women’s contention to biologic females. 

Soon, different sports governing bodies followed suit, but a fistful of Democrat-controlled states, astir notably Maine, California, and Minnesota, refused to comply. Legal battles ensued, including 2 that were heard earlier the Supreme Court this period – Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J.

Trump has besides spoken astatine magnitude astir the authorities of assemblage athletics successful the satellite of name, representation and likeness (NIL). It was reported successful May aft a gathering with erstwhile Alabama caput manager Nick Saban that helium was considering an enforcement bid to modulate NIL deals successful assemblage athletics. He past signed the "Saving College Sports" enforcement bid successful July which acceptable caller restrictions connected payments to assemblage athletes and implemented demands that schools relationship for preserving resources for non-revenue sports. 

Outside of policy, Trump has attended respective sporting events successful his archetypal year.

President Donald Trump earlier a crippled betwixt the Navy Midshipmen and Army West Point Black Knights astatine M&T Bank Stadium successful Baltimore, Maryland, connected Dec. 13, 2025. (Roger Wimmer/ISI Photos/ISI Photos via Getty Images)

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In April, Trump sat alongside UFC President Dana White extracurricular the octagon for UFC 314 successful Miami and again 2 months aboriginal astatine UFC 316 successful New Jersey. He besides attended respective events successful September, including the Ryder Cup astatine Bethpage Black successful New York and a New York Yankees crippled connected Sept. 11, 24 years aft the 9/11 attacks. He was besides contiguous astatine the U.S. Open men’s last earlier that month. 

Trump attended the Washington Commanders crippled successful November, becoming the archetypal sitting president to be an NFL regular-season crippled since 1978, erstwhile erstwhile President Jimmy Carter was successful office.

Top-seeded Indiana, led by Heisman Trophy victor Fernando Mendoza, volition instrumentality connected Miami astatine Hard Rock Stadium successful Miami Gardens, Florida, Monday astatine 7:45 p.m. ET.

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