At Fernando Mendoza's Miami high school, students are 'torn' over who to root for in college football's national title game

MIAMI — About five miles from the University of Miami’s campus, many students at Christopher Columbus High School were unsurprisingly decked out in orange and green on Friday as the hometown Hurricanes prepared to play Indiana in Monday’s college football national championship. Some, however, opted for crimson.

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