Look at the scoreboard all you want. Miami 52, Central Michigan 3. Say it out loud and it sounds like the kind of score that should get a shrug. Power program hosts a MAC team, power program wins big, everybody goes to brunch. Next game, please.But anyone who’s...
A comeback against you tells you more than a blowout win does. Blowouts show you what a team does when everything goes right. When a lead starts slipping and the other sideline starts believing, you find out what the team is actually made of. Miami got that test...
You find out what a football team really is somewhere else. Not at home, with the smoke, the noise and a stadium full of people who already believe in you. You find out on the road, in somebody else’s building, when the crowd is against you and the only belief...
Let’s get the obvious out of the way first, because somebody in your group chat has already said it: it was FAMU. Nobody is booking a trip to the College Football Playoff off a 77-7 final against a program Miami was supposed to beat. Nobody sensible is building...
Every season has a few games that fans circle, and a few more that they skim past on the schedule. FAMU at Miami on a Thursday night in September looks like one to skim past. You check the kickoff time, figure out whether you can leave work early, and assume the Canes...
