GLENDALE, Ariz. — No. 10 Miami and No. 6 Ole Miss face off with a spot in the national championship on the line on Thursday in the College Football Playoff semifinals at the Fiesta Bowl.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both teams faced incredible obstacles arrive at this program-defining moment. Ole Miss navigated the dramatic departure of coach Lane Kiffin on the eve of the CFP. Miami was the last at-large selection in the playoff and then navigated the most difficult postseason path to reach the semifinals by defeating Texas A&M and reigning champion Ohio State.<\/p>\n
The Rebels (13-1) reached this point with the most explosive offense in the playoff, averaging 40 points behind the storybook rise of former Division II quarterback Trinidad Chambliss. The Hurricanes (12-2) leaned on the most physical offensive and defensive fronts in the playoff, including the nation’s best pass-rushing defense led by defensive ends Rueben Bain and Akheem Mesidor, to win low-scoring games.<\/p>\n
Which team emerges victorious from the desert? A Hurricanes win would be a return to glory for “The U,” sending Miami to the College Football Playoff National Championship back home at Hard Rock Stadium in Coral Gables. A win for Ole Miss continues the most successful season in school history and rubs more salt in the eye of Kiffin, the most controversial turncoat coach in the sport.<\/p>\n
Keep it locked here as CBS Sports provides you with live updates, highlights and analysis as Miami battles with Ole Miss in a semifinal College Football Playoff game at the Fiesta Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE, Ariz. — No. 10 Miami and No. 6 Ole Miss face off with a spot in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10241,143,56754,123,4641,125,124,56752,53609,56751,55328,56753,10481,55324],"class_list":["post-111342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-college-football","tag-fiesta-bowl-bowl","tag-miami","tag-miami-fla-hurricanes","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-vs-ole-miss-odds","tag-miami-vs-ole-miss-prediction","tag-miami-vs-ole-miss-score","tag-miami-vs-ole-miss-time","tag-miami-vs-ole-miss-tv","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-where-to-watch-miami-vs-ole-miss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111342","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=111342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}