Nobody in Coral Gables should be shocked. Annoyed, sure. Sick to the stomach, absolutely. But shocked? No. A 9-0 team just lost by five points to a 5-4 Georgia Tech team that told Miami exactly what it was going to do and then did it anyway, for 250-plus yards on the...
There is a specific kind of nervous joy that only exists at 9-0. You have seen it if you have ever stood in a room full of Miami people in November — the laugh that starts loud and ends a half-second early, the toast that lands and then hangs there while everybody...