2025 ended up being a LOVELY year of college football.
THE ™ Miami Hurricanes finished 2025 with a BANG louder than Mike Breen calling a Golden State Warriors game. 23 years after the Ohio State Buckeyes
stole a championship from THE ™ Miami Hurricanes, revenge was finally delivered.
Of course leading up to the game Ohio State fans were peacocking themselves all over social media about how badly Miami was going to be humbled.
TIME TO SHOW THE RECEIPTS!!!
Before we wade through the average joe on X.com, let’s leadoff with the “experts.”
Former Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer said “I just don’t see Miami scoring” and that two touchdowns would be plenty to beat the Hurricanes. That, friends, is what we call recency bias. National pundits have not watched a Miami game between Week 5 and the Texas A&M game, and those early season games apparently don’t count, so all national media commentary is really based on the Texas A&M game. An ultra low scoring game played in a Texas wind storm.
This is what I mean – pundits and most every Ohio State fan thought the Texas A&M game was somehow representative of Miami’s capabilities. Frankly, Ohio State wouldn’t have scored any more than Miami in those conditions against a very good Texas A&M team.
Former Buckeye “experts” like Urban Meyer and Chimdi Checkwa completely underestimated the Hurricanes. What about the Vegas experts?
Yeah, the Vegas experts weren’t any better.
SEC Numbers Guy should be more worried about how absolute dog crap the SEC has become. Well behind the Big Ten and, quite frankly, not that much better than either the ACC or Big XII.
Ohhhh no Ohio State fans, nope nope nope – you don’t get to gloat either. Believe me, Miami fans are no fans of the ACC, but a G5 football conference?!?! GTFO with that nonsense. This isn’t a Boise State situation, or a Gonzaga situation in basketball, where one outlier school is representing a G5 conference. FSU beat Bama, Clemson beat South Carolina, Louisville beat Kentucky, Miami beat Florida. And that’s just in the regular season ‘when it counts.’ Virginia beat Missouri, Wake Forest beat Mississippi State, and SMU beat Arizona. In addition, of course, to Miami’s playoff run.
Anyone familiar with 2024 Tennessee football and 2025 Miami football knows there’s no comparison. 2024 Tennessee had just two guys on defense earn all conference honors – James Pearce Jr., an admittedly great EDGE rusher who was a first round draft pick, and CB Jermod McCoy. That’s it. Unlike Tennessee, Miami is littered with award winning, future NFL talent up and down its entire defense. The defense line is lead by multiple future high draft picks, and DC Hetherman is very good at moving them around the line causing confusion for the very raw, inexperienced Ohio State front. So maybe Tennessee fans squawked a lot last year, but Ohio State fans just found out the hard way that Miami’s defense is the real deal.
To quote: “I would much rather have Miami…Miami is a team that’s been so up and down and I don’t think they’re a physical football team especially at the point of contact like Ohio State is on the defensive side.” That’s got to be the most wrong prognostication of anyone, right?
But the game wasn’t just about Miami’s defense shutting down Ohio State. Buckeyes fans presumed that the Ohio State defense would absolutely shut down Miami.
Hell??? More like a warm July afternoon in South Florida, which is no big deal. Nothing like Sayin was put through.
Thoughts: Carson Beck is worth every penny, doing exactly what Shannon Dawson is asking of him to win high stakes football games, notwithstanding the “hell” brought to him. Oh, and Beck has a much brighter NFL future than former Ohio State QB Cardale Jones, a flameout fourth round pick who only appeared in one NFL game.
Aside from Beck, the backbone of Miami’s success rested with the recruiting battles it won over Ohio State, especially players like Mark Fletcher and Marquise Lightfoot. I’m sure Ohio State fans were supportive of their decisions.
About as expected. Doubt Miami’s recruits have any regrets.
The whole point of this article is to illuminate just how delusional Buckeyes fans were, and they’re pretty damn delusional.
Rest assured, no Miami fan is upset right now.
Merry Christmas Eve to you too Blake. Here’s a gift just for you and your Buckeye brethren:
Dave Portnoy in a Miami hat! Looks great on El Presidente! No flop on the undercarriage. Deserves a monster score, 10.0 (i.e. 24 – 14).
BONUS (Non-Ohio State) RECEIPTS
One thing that was neat to see was Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith dabbing up a ton of Miami players after the game. Smith, a South Florida kid who chose OSU, remains friends with many of them and you really won’t hear a bad word about Miami out of Smith. Compare that to Miami to Georgia transfers Colbie Young, Jaden Harris, and Josh Horton.
What’s great is that these three wouldn’t make Miami’s two-deep today. Young has had injuries and legal troubles. Harris is back in the transfer portal after appearing in only eight games as a reserve and special teams player. Horton at least appeared regularly, but barely contributed. Since they barely played at Georgia, this week shouldn’t seem all that different to them compared to in-season.
