The No. 17 Miami Hurricanes may have lost to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the dumbest way imaginable.
The Canes held a 20-17 lead and had the Jackets dead to rights. With GT out of timeouts, all Miami had to do was kneel the clock out and leave Hard Rock Stadium with the win. It’s that simple.
Instead, Mario Cristobal decided to run it. You can guess what happened next:
Miami was in position to win with 0:30 seconds remaining, only needing to kneel down the ball
— PFF College (@PFF_College) October 8, 2023
They instead run the ball, fumble, Georgia Tech drives down the field for the win
Unreal
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Karma strikes in Miami!
— Brendan Moore (@bmoorecfb) October 8, 2023
The Canes could have won the game with a simple QB kneel but ran the ball and fumbled. GT recovered the fumble and this happened
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And this was 1000% unnecessary. Fire everyone.
All Miami had to do was take a knee. Instead hand off, fumble. Though it might get overturned. But they absolutely did not have to do anything but take a knee.
— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) October 8, 2023
Miami lost this football game. Yes GT had no timeouts, that isnt a mistake. pic.twitter.com/WjG89rnlke
— Brett Nevitt (@brettpn) October 8, 2023
Unbelievable. Literally threw an unbeaten mark into the trash for nothing. The Hurricanes would’ve remained one of the only unbeatens in the ACC and now you’re behind the eight-ball in the standings. Good job Mario. And the kicker is, this isn’t even the first time this has happened to him!
I completely forgot Mario Cristobal had almost the EXACT same thing happen to him in the 2018 Oregon-Stanford game, ran the ball instead of kneeling and fumbled. pic.twitter.com/uOX0KzRn5Z
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) October 8, 2023
Miami hits the road to face North Carolina next week and man, oh man, you picked the wrong time to completely blunder a game.