We're seeing first-hand that years of "college football is so much better when Miami is in the thick of things" was nothing more than hyperbolic sympathy as it was depressing to see the #Canes as a non-factor and a 7-5 program for a decade and a half.
They also liked the #MarioCristobal 'coming home' narrative when it was still a rebuild at #TheU—cutesy #ESPN segments of cafecito and the Cuban alum back in Coral Gables to try and do the clean-up job so many before him failed at.
... and then it started working and they've done nothing to call out any injustice regarding the #Canes all season.
Horrible officiating in the #ACC all seasons; an ungodly amount of penalties going against #Miami, with so many ignored calls on the other side.
#RuebenBain and #AhkeemMesidor are the top two defensive line picks heading to the #NFL this spring; both were held non-stop every game this fall—virtually one holding call or every dozen times either was mugged.
This narrative that Miami lost to "bad teams" in #Louisville and #SMU—as illegitimate this season's moving-target #CFP narrative that "better losses" is a stronger metric than better wins.
We have a rigged system where ESPN will protect and prop up the SEC to protect their $3-billion investment in television rights last year; the Southeastern Conference now the crown-jewel of the four-letter network's college football programming.
This is the reason teams like #Tenneessee and #Missouri managed to hang in at the bottom-end of the Top 25 all year—so that an #Alabama, #Georgia or #Oklahoma could boast more 'ranked wins'.
The ACC is 6-4 against the SEC this fall, yet one- or two-loss ACC teams couldn't crack the Top 25 while average SEC teams stayed ranked for 'good losses'.
Alabama losing to Georgia next weekend and Texas Tech smacking around BYU—that could clear up two spots to help Miami's cause—and wherever it lands, it lands ... but it doesn't address the bigger issue of simps and other paid hacks in the media not having the balls to call out the Notre Dame dilemma.
The @CFBPlayoff absolutely ranked Miami too low in it's first poll—and let's be honest; everyone thought this was a problem that would work itself out due to Cristobal's struggles in November and a belief his Canes would fold and drop another game or two.
Nope.
38-10 over Syracuse ... 41-7 over North Carolina State ... 34-17 over Virginia Tech ... 38-7 over Pittsburgh.
The 'consistency on offense' the #CFP demanded—it showed up ten-fold—while it was style points galore, as the Canes' defense went lockdown-mode.
They tried to negate the head-to-head argument with the #Irish while hoping to will themselves to anything but the 10-2 situation they now have on their hands; Miami not just beating Notre Dame straight up—but now beating three of four common opponents by larger margins than the Irish did.
Their entire house of cards is built on a 'better losses' narrative—as they can't win in any other metric.
Miami beat four ranked teams; No. 6 Notre Dame, No 18. South Florida, No. 18 Florida State and No. 22 Pittsburgh.
Notre Dame beat No. 20 Southern Cal and No. 22 Pitt.
... and how can you claim 'better losses' when you have matching 10-2 records, yet one of those teams you lost to is the same Miami team you're being compared to? Not to mention the fact that Texas A&M was ranked No. 19 when these two faced off and was nowhere near the No. 3 team they eventually played themselves into.
The entire debate is nothing more than paid hacks in the media and overzealous Notre Dame fans that went on PR and smear campaigns these past few weeks ... expecting things to get worked out when Miami stumbled their way into 9-3 or 8-4.
"See, we told you—Miami isn't a good football team."
Instead, the Canes rolled four opponents by a combined score of 143-41 and caused the precise chaos the haters, critics and gatekeepers hoped to avoid.
All that to say, those on the right side of this thing—continue to flood the zone calling out the bullshit.
Hoping that things fall into place with higher-ranked teams stumbling next Saturday is fine, but at day's end this is a Miami and Notre Dame problem and there is zero argument to put the Irish above the Canes when both are 10-2 and The U checks off every other box metrics-wise—outside the laughable 'better losses' that the Irish claim, when the Canes are LITERALLY one of those supposedly better losses.
I’ve never seen a team get three chances to convert on 4th and 1. @ACCFootball. Pretty damn egregious. What happened to everyone being able to listen in?
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