Miami played a sloppy game, and with a combination of bad performances, unbidden stupidity, and some terrible refereeing, found a way to lose to the SMU Mustangs 26-20 in overtime.
Craig T. Smith has your game recap:
Mike Schiffman is back with the 3 stars of the game:
Let’s get into this edition of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:
Lots of good counting stats, but a lack of points due to the plethora of penalties. Jojo Trader’s horrific drop-turned-interception was little league type stuff.
I don’t have much bad to say the run game, apart from running into 9 man boxes on a couple 3rd and 4th downs. It was ACTUALLY productive most of the day, and shockingly diverse.
But Miami left tons of points on the field and shock themselves in the di…..foot more times than I care to count.
Miami’s offense left the defense out to dry time and time and time again. And the defense actually played well.
But whatever. We lost. F.
Kickoffs were great. Punting was incredible. Davis made both FG attempts. And the Malachi Toney had another explosive punt return. But Keelan Marion made the idiotic decision to field a kickoff and run out of bounds at the 10. And, one kick return almost went to the crib, if not for a Carter Davis form tackle.
The team was barely ready to play.
The penalty issues — which Cristobal and company have been “getting back to work on addressing” for 3 months now persisted, and in some instances got worse.
Another bad loss as a double digit favorite.
Another loss in November.
That’s it for this installment of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
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