College football experienced its first Blood Week of the season. This weekend saw losses for eight ranked teams, and even the teams that didn’t lose were extremely close. That brings us to the Miami Hurricanes, who played a great rivalry game with unranked Florida State that turned into a shootout even though Miami is supposed to have a championship defense and Florida State is Florida State.
After four quarters and two overtimes, Miami beat FSU, 43-35. Saturday’s victory came only after two seemingly successful Hail Marys from FSU quarterback Ashton Daniels were called back-to-back. The first was due to a detention penalty for the offense. The second attempt appeared to have ended with FSU receiver Duce Robinson having double possession of the ball, but it was ultimately ruled an interception for Miami.
Miami quarterback Darian Mensah threw for 326 yards and three touchdowns, including the go-ahead run in the second overtime. Daniels, for his part, totaled 298 yards and four touchdowns. It was Miami’s seventh victory in its last 10 meetings against Florida State. Even though I should probably talk and get upset about how this game was a steal against the Noles, my hatred for this coaching staff has replaced the joy I would have felt if they had pulled it off.
What’s more interesting to me is that even after a game like that, which Miami should have lost, a larger confluence of ineptitude and general chaos resulted in the Hurricanes becoming the AP’s No. 1 team in college football. It took losses at Notre Dame, Georgia, Texas, Indiana and Alabama for that reality to come true. The reason this is worth mentioning is because there has never been a program less equipped to be the best school in the country than these Miami Hurricanes.
In the pilot episode of Arrested developmentthere is a point where, driven by pure greed and their own narcissistic desires, the Bluth family puts the youngest Bluth, Buster, in charge of their business. This is a character we just saw call the blue part of an “obviously land” card. We even get a scene of him in a business meeting, suddenly cowering and panicking until he collapses under the weight of expectation. This is modern Miami football.
The only thing funnier than seeing Miami get that nod will be seeing how quickly they blow it away. I bet Miami loses its No. 1 ranking before Arch Manning is benched. But I understand why we ended up here. There is really no other choice to make. Ohio State didn’t do enough to establish itself as the better team and just lost Julian Sayin to a shoulder injury. As for BYU, it’s already a miracle that these ranking committees put them second. It had to be Miami, even after a game in which Florida State – which is bad and has an idiot for a coach, I can’t say this enough – completely diced them. Miami is a serious team that could go into this season’s playoffs and potentially win it all. They lose so much to Pitt on Saturday.
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