{"id":111169,"date":"2026-01-09T01:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111169\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:13:30","slug":"live-updates-ole-miss-vs-miami-in-the-college-football-playoff-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111169\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Ole Miss vs. Miami in the College Football Playoff semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few expected Ole Miss or Miami to still be alive in the College Football Playoff bracket, especially when considering the data from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/play\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CFP Bracket Challenge Game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While No. 6 seed Ole Miss was predicted by 87 percent of fans to win its rematch against American Conference champion Tulane, fans weren&#8217;t so confident in a quarterfinal matchup for the Rebels.<\/p>\n<p>After defeating Tulane 41-10, Ole Miss faced another rematch, this time against SEC champion Georgia. We the fans \u2014 yes I&#8217;m including myself here \u2014 picked the Bulldogs to sweep the Rebels in the season series at a near 86 percent rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So much for that. Ole Miss proved us all wrong with a 39-34 win in the Sugar Bowl to advance to the College Football Playoff semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/video\/football\/2025-12-11\/how-nation-picking-2025-college-football-playoff-bracket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NationsPicks2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>How the nation is picking the 2025 College Football Playoff bracket<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s No. 10 seed Miami. The Hurricanes were the last team to receive an at-large bid to the playoff after a 10-2 finish kept them out of the ACC Championship Game.<\/p>\n<p>Once Miami got in the field, it had to visit a one-loss Texas A&amp;M team in College Station that nearly 70 percent of fans picked to win. The Hurricanes pulled off the upset in a 10-3 defensive battle.<\/p>\n<p>Miami then had to face the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes. Fans had sparse confidence in the Hurricanes in the quarterfinal round too; nearly 80 percent of fans picked the Buckeyes to knock off the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Miami landed its second upset of the tournament, holding off Ohio State in a 24-14 win to secure a CFP semifinal berth.<\/p>\n<p>So who are the fans picking in this matchup?<\/p>\n<p>Fans that correctly predicted the Miami-Ole Miss semifinal have the Hurricanes winning at a 54 percent rate.<\/p>\n<p>Miami is the favorite amongst fans for the first time all tournament. Will the Hurricanes prevail? Or will Ole Miss spoil Miami&#8217;s shot at playing a national championship in its home stadium?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/video\/football\/2026-01-02\/breaking-down-perfect-college-football-playoff-brackets-after-quarterfinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cfp-bracket-qfs-reactions.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breaking down perfect College Football Playoff brackets after quarterfinals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few expected Ole Miss or Miami to still be alive in the College Football Playoff bracket, especially when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27880,123,8159,125,124,9918],"class_list":{"0":"post-111169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-homepage","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-fl","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-ole-miss"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111169","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=111169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}