Miami jumped ahead of Notre Dame and into the College Football Playoff<\/a> in the final rankings.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Beck\u2019s stats in the postseason have not been spectacular in the slightest. But given the margins that Miami has been playing with, he hasn\u2019t made a key mistake. That\u2019s probably more important. Against Texas A&M, Beck was 14-of-20 passing for 103 yards and a TD. Against Ohio State, he was 19-of-26 passing for 138 yards and a TD. Can he find success down the field against the Ole Miss defense? Or will it be more of the same short passing game?<\/p>\n
Trinidad Chambliss has been the breakout star of the postseason, especially after his performance in the Sugar Bowl. After throwing for 282 yards and totaling three touchdowns in the Rebels\u2019 first-round win over Tulane, Chambliss was 30-of-46 for 362 yards and two scores against Georgia.<\/p>\n
And it wasn\u2019t just the numbers that Chambliss put up \u2014 it was the way he did it. Chambliss\u2019 improvisation was imperative in the second half of the game as Ole Miss mounted its comeback. He repeatedly got away from Georgia defenders to make plays while moving outside the pocket. Can Miami\u2019s defensive line crash the pocket enough to prevent Chambliss from making magic again?<\/p>\n
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Players to watch<\/p>\n
Ole Miss WR Harrison Wallace III: The Penn State transfer picked a fine time for his first 100-yard game of the season since Week 2. Wallace had nine catches for 156 yards and Ole Miss\u2019 final touchdown of the game in the Sugar Bowl. It was Wallace\u2019s best performance of the season and his first 100-yard game with Chambliss as the team\u2019s starting quarterback.<\/p>\n
Wallace had five catches for 130 yards against Georgia State and four catches for 117 yards against Kentucky, but backup Austin Simmons started both of those games. Simmons was injured in that Kentucky win and Chambliss took over.<\/p>\n
The two have forged a connection \u2014 Wallace had four games with at least five catches with Chambliss as the primary QB \u2014 but he hadn\u2019t been as prolific as he was on Jan. 1. Can he continue that?<\/p>\n
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Miami WR CJ Daniels: Daniels was the team\u2019s leading receiver in the Cotton Bowl with five catches for 49 yards. With Mark Fletcher powering a physical run game that\u2019s beaten up both Texas A&M and Ohio State and defenses wanting to take away star freshman WR Malachi Toney, the opening is there for Daniels to take advantage.<\/p>\n
Daniels has 42 catches for 469 yards and seven scores despite missing three games due to injury in November. Since returning against Pitt, he has just nine total catches for 128 yards and a TD, but the Miami offense needs more than Fletcher and Toney to make plays. Ohio State limited Toney to just 16 yards on five catches on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n
Key to the game<\/p>\n
This matchup is going to be all about the Miami defense again. The Hurricanes held Texas A&M to 326 yards on 75 plays in the first round of the playoff and sacked Marcel Reed seven times. In the Cotton Bowl, Miami held the Buckeyes to 332 yards on 59 plays while sacking Ohio State\u2019s Julian Sayin five times.<\/p>\n
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Oh, Miami got a massive pick-6 from Keionte Scott in the second quarter too. Scott\u2019s interception flipped the game and after Ohio State cut the Miami lead to three early in the fourth quarter, Ohio State ran nine offensive plays the rest of the way for a grand total of six yards.<\/p>\n
Does Ole Miss need to get out to a fast start to have a chance and also force Miami to play from behind? The first quarter of the Cotton Bowl was scoreless and there were no points in the first half in College Station. Miami moved the ball well against A&M, but settled for (missed) field goals too often. The Hurricanes may need more than two offensive touchdowns to win this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami is two wins away from its first national title since the 2001 college football season. Ole Miss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4654,10241,26585,53422,123,125,124,10783,9918,21029,51856,31227],"class_list":["post-109206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-carson-beck","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-cotton-bowl","tag-fiesta-bowl","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-ohio-state","tag-ole-miss","tag-postseason-game","tag-sugar-bowl","tag-trinidad-chambliss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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