Miami Hurricanes earn a shot at the National Title

[Downunder Dolphan]

What a strange 24 hours...

The Dolphins sack McDaniel, and the Canes win the Fiesta Bowl for a shot at the National Title!

I reckon Joe Rose is going to be very happy today.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/gametracker/recap/NCAAF_20260108_MIAMI@MISS/

[CF DolFan]

The Canes kept them in the game. I swear I was trying to figure out if it was OC Shannon Dawson abandoning the run at the end of the second half or the DBs who kept dropping INTs that were on the take. I'm not a huge run, run, run guy but when you are dominating time on a team with a high potent offense you keep doing it.

[Sibster]

It all depends on who wins tonight.   If Oregon wins, Miami will win the natty easily.   If Indiana wins, Miami is in trouble.  Indiana is well coached and doesn't make the mistakes that Ole Miss, Ohio State and aTm made.   Not to mention Fernando Mendoza being a Columbus graduate and having a family that originated from Cuba, they will rig it for him to win it in his hometown.

[Sunstroke]

Not to mention Fernando Mendoza being a Columbus graduate and having a family that originated from Cuba, they will rig it for him to win it in his hometown.

I thought you were talking about the College Football Playoffs, not the QAnon convention...

[Sibster]

I thought you were talking about the College Football Playoffs, not the QAnon convention...

Not sure where political hack groups fit into this.   You and I both know that big games like the CFP and the Super Bowl can easily be rigged.   

Think about it.  You have a local kid with a background that pretty much represents a broad percentage of Miami's population going off and winning the Heisman, then coming home to play his last college game against the team he grew up rooting for and all the marbles are at stake.   The headlines and TV ratings would be nuclear if he won it. 

[Spider-Dan]

No, the rest of us don't "know" that major sporting championships "can easily be rigged."

That's a fevered conspiracy theory from pathetic losers who don't know how to accept a loss.

[Sibster]

No, the rest of us don't "know" that major sporting championships "can easily be rigged."

That's a fevered conspiracy theory from pathetic losers who don't know how to accept a loss.

If you really believe some of these games aren't rigged, I've got some mountainside property here in Florida to sell you

[Sunstroke]

If you really believe some of these games aren't rigged, I've got some mountainside property here in Florida to sell you

Your ridiculous conspiracies, like your facetious/fictitious real estate, are nothing until you show me proof. 

Until that happens, I think the conspiracy (that's gaining traction) that you are actually a transgender leprechaun flat-earther planted on this website to incite chaos and sow disorder is a far more reasonable theory...

But hey, Faith and Begorrah, brother!  You just keep on being you...

[Sibster]

Your ridiculous conspiracies, like your facetious/fictitious real estate, are nothing until you show me proof. 

Until that happens, I think the conspiracy (that's gaining traction) that you are actually a transgender leprechaun flat-earther planted on this website to incite chaos and sow disorder is a far more reasonable theory...

But hey, Faith and Begorrah, brother!  You just keep on being you...

Look no further than yesterday's Broncos-Bills game

[CF DolFan]

Look no further than yesterday's Broncos-Bills game

I think the Bills got screwed but I also don't think it was a conspiracy. Refs have been screwing things up forever and do it at every level.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I think the Bills got screwed but I also don't think it was a conspiracy. Refs have been screwing things up forever and do it at every level.

Agree every game the losing team makes about 20 significant mistakes, the winning team about ten and the refs 3 or 4.  Nobody on the field is perfect.

[Sunstroke]

There are NO conspiracies here...come back when you have something provable.

[Pappy13]

Agree every game the losing team makes about 20 significant mistakes, the winning team about ten and the refs 3 or 4.  Nobody on the field is perfect.

Yeah, I definitely think that Buffalo made more mistakes than the refs did, I'm not sure the refs made any in that game actually. The intereception was a tough call, but not sure it was the wrong one. They were both fighting for the ball when they hit the ground and the defensive back came away with it. Is that clearly a catch? If he had clear control of the ball when he hit the ground and it was pulled out after, it's a catch, but did he? Was about 50/50. Could have been called either way and the losing team would have been upset if it didn't go their way.

[CF DolFan]

Control and knee down as far as I can see.

[Pappy13]

Control and knee down as far as I can see.

Are the DB's hands on that ball? Are both of the receiver's hands on the ball? Tough to overturn the call on the field even with these pictures in my humble opinion.