What are Miami’s College Football Playoff chances, odds after upset costs Hurricanes spot in ACC title game

The one thing that couldn’t happen for Miami, happened for Miami. The No. 6 Hurricanes will miss the ACC Championship Game and could potentially miss out on the College Football Playoff, all following a 9-0 start, after a 42-38 loss to Syracuse. SMU will play Clemson in Charlotte instead. 

The Hurricanes’ CFP fate is entirely out of its control. A win over the Orange would have put them in a more comfortable position for the 12-team field, even with the ACC title game still to go. As it is now, they have the 18th-best odds (+25000) to win the national championship, per FanDuel, and they may be outside the CFP bubble as well. 

The Hurricanes don’t have a win against a ranked opponent on their résumé, and they’ve been playing with fire all season. From Sept. 27 to Oct. 19, Miami beat three unranked opponents in games that either came down to the final possession or the final play. 

Miami also doesn’t get to play another game between now and Dec. 8, when the final set of College Football Playoff Rankings are released, and the Hurricanes haven’t exactly left the best impression on the selection committee. Two of their last three regular-season games resulted in losses to unranked opponents. It’s possible Miami is bounced from the field for a team like South Carolina which, in spite of its three losses, has four wins against ranked teams this year. Even Alabama could sneak in over Miami now given the fact that it has strong victories against Georgia and Missouri to tout. 

The selection committee would need to find seven at-large teams more deserving, in their eyes, than Miami. That might not happen, but it’s undeniably disappointing for Miami that it has no say in its own fate at this point — this in a year when the Hurricanes have…

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Author : Will Backus

Publish date : 2024-12-01 01:17:00

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