CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami coach Mario Cristobal acknowledged his College Football Playoff case Tuesday morning, imploring the choice committee to “go to the info” when deciding whether or not the Hurricanes deserve an at-large berth into the 12-team discipline.
The 14th-ranked Hurricanes (10-2, 6-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) determine to be thought-about alongside a number of at-large hopefuls, together with a trio of Southeastern Conference groups — Alabama, South Carolina and Mississippi — that each one completed the common season 9-3.
“We gained 10 video games this 12 months and never many groups have,” Cristobal stated in his weekly look on WQAM, the Hurricanes’ flagship station. “And in our losses, these losses got here down to 1 possession. That’s a really completely different résumé than the 9-3 groups’.”
The committee releases its next-to-last rankings Tuesday evening, and people numbers will probably give a robust trace about which groups shall be within the discipline when the ultimate model of the bracket comes out on Sunday.
This weekend’s convention championship video games — Clemson vs. SMU within the ACC, UNLV vs. Boise State within the Mountain West, Iowa State vs. Arizona State within the Big 12, Georgia vs. Texas within the SEC and Penn State vs. Oregon within the Big Ten — will resolve a lot of who goes the place, however groups like Miami haven’t got one other sport to enhance the résumé.
“The awards ought to go to the groups which might be truly successful the video games, not those which might be politicking themselves out of losses,” Cristobal stated.
Part of Miami’s argument for a CFP berth is that the Hurricanes gained simply at Florida to open the season, that they lead the nation in yards and factors per sport, that Heisman Trophy hopeful quarterback Cam Ward led the nation with 36 landing passes, that they went unbeaten at dwelling and their two losses — at Georgia Tech and at Syracuse — have been by a mixed 9 factors.
The arguments in opposition to Miami embrace that the Hurricanes did not face any groups that have been ranked in that exact week and that the protection allowed no less than 31 factors 5 occasions within the closing eight video games.
Yet even with the defensive struggles, the Hurricanes nonetheless completed the common season as certainly one of seven groups nationally ranked within the prime 25 in each yards per sport and yards allowed per sport, together with Indiana, Ole Miss, Oregon, Penn State, Tennessee and Texas.
“Go to the info,” Cristobal stated. “Award soccer groups for successful soccer video games.”
