{"id":75159,"date":"2024-11-11T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T21:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/joel-klatt-reacts-to-miami-loss-what-setback-means-for-its-college-football-playoff-hopes\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T21:33:58","slug":"joel-klatt-reacts-to-miami-loss-what-setback-means-for-its-college-football-playoff-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/joel-klatt-reacts-to-miami-loss-what-setback-means-for-its-college-football-playoff-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Klatt reacts to Miami loss, what setback means for its College Football Playoff hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami<\/a><\/strong> won its first nine games of the season. That two-plus-month unbeaten stretch featured a trio of second-half comebacks.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes didn\u2019t have another one in them at Georgia Tech<\/a><\/strong> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMiami finally loses,\u201d FOX Sports analyst Joel Klatt said Monday on his show<\/a>. \u201cThey were like a drunk chasing a balloon next to a cliff. This was inevitable. When you are not balanced in this sport, you\u2019re going to get beat. And they were not balanced. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m not just talking about running and throwing. I\u2019m talking about the ability to play well on the defensive side and the offensive side. And they had been toying with losses for weeks and really should have been beat before this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Miami, at the time No. 4 in the country, trailed the upset-hungry Yellow Jackets most of the Week 11 matchup. In fact, an early second quarter touchdown pass from Haynes King marked the turning point in a game that saw Georgia Tech hold the ball for close to 10 minutes more than the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

The Yellow Jackets played keep away from Heisman Trophy-contending quarterback Cam Ward<\/a><\/strong>, and Miami fell short, 28-23. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are a one-dimensional team led by a great quarterback, and I\u2019m a huge fan of Cam Ward, and I like this Miami team offensively. But they do not stop people on the defensive side, that\u2019s all,\u201d Klatt said of the Hurricanes, who are tied for 57th nationally with 23.1 points per game allowed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t have any margin for error. And, more specifically, Cam didn\u2019t have any margin for error in any of these games. Now, as a team, they have no margin for error because they better win the rest of their games, go to the ACC Championship game and win it because one more loss, and they\u2019re not going to the playoff. So they\u2019ve put themselves in quite a bind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klatt explained that, before Miami lost to Georgia Tech, he thought head coach Mario Cristobal\u2019s team could make the playoff as a one-loss conference championship game loser. He doesn\u2019t see that path anymore for the Hurricanes, who still have to play Wake Forest and Syracuse to round out the regular season.<\/p>\n

Klatt pointed out that there\u2019s likely to be a 10-2 SEC team left out of the field, and that team will likely have a better resume than a two-loss Miami that finished runner-up in the ACC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just the case,\u201d Klatt said. \u201cThat\u2019s the facts of the matter. So Miami is up against it. They\u2019ve got no room for error the rest of the year. SMU\u2019s still sitting there at 5-0. And I sit there, and I look at SMU at 5-0, and I think to myself, look at the standings around college football \u2014 they\u2019re in sole possession, the Mustangs. <\/p>\n

\u201cPony up, SMU, sole possession of first place in the ACC.\u201d<\/p>\n

SMU, which joined the ACC this past offseason, has lost only one game this season, and that was a three-point setback to undefeated and Big 12-leading BYU in September.<\/p>\n

The Mustangs, who were No. 13 in the first CFP rankings, close the season with games against Boston College, Virginia and Cal. Of those three contests, only the UVA matchup is on the road.<\/p>\n

Miami is no longer in the driver\u2019s seat in the ACC. The Hurricanes still control their destiny, but, as Klatt said, they\u2019re suddenly \u201cup against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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