{"id":124247,"date":"2026-01-19T23:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124247\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:07:12","slug":"miamis-history-of-choking-could-lead-to-fsu-fans-celebrating-after-cfp-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124247\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami&#8217;s history of choking could lead to FSU fans celebrating after CFP title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5h\">The arch-rival <a href=\"https:\/\/chopchat.com\/miami-hurricanes-showing-desperation-looking-for-another-portal-qb-savior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami<\/a> Hurricanes play the Indiana Hoosiers tonight in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at 7:30 PM EST on ESPN. I never thought that I would see the Hurricanes relevant again in my lifetime. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5k\">When they moved to the ACC back in 2004, they struggled to maintain consistency within their program (still cannot win a conference championship). However, head football coach Mario Cristobal has found an identity for his team: Be aggressive and physical. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5n\">Before I move on to my next point, I am fully aware that Florida State football finished 5-7 in 2025 and 2-10 in 2024, and has been inconsistent over the past decade. However, the Seminole faithful can now watch their last national championship footage on something other than VHS tapes. <\/p>\n<p>Miami Hurricanes could be in for a rude awakening against the Indiana Hoosiers<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">There are many storylines for Monday night&#8217;s tilt between the Hurricanes and Hoosiers. However, the one that I want to focus on is Miami&#8217;s history of choking down the stretch. It doesn&#8217;t help when they are led by <a href=\"https:\/\/chopchat.com\/mario-cristobal-has-his-flaws-as-a-coach-but-he-did-this-correctly-in-coral-gables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mario Cristobal<\/a>, who tends not be the best game manager.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5w\">When you look at closing games in a season, Miami lost to SMU this year to knock them out of ACC Championship consideration. Then the Hurricanes lost to Georgia Tech and Syracuse in 2024. Even in 2023, they lost a stretch of three games to spiral out of control. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">When people think of Indiana as a team, they find of the Hoosiers program of old that historically lost many games. However, head football coach Curt Cignetti has posted a dominant brand of football in 2025. Even the Alabama Crimson Tide thought that it could overwhelm them, but they were only able to muster 193 total yards. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">Indiana is on a dominant run where it obliterated opponents Alabama and Oregon. Meanwhile, Miami had to grind it out against teams like Ohio State and Ole Miss. While that isn&#8217;t always a great indicator, the Hurricanes typically allow opposing teams to stay in games. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"68\">If that becomes the case tonight, then Indiana should have no issues, and Florida State football fans should be celebrating the fact that Miami did not win a national championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arch-rival Miami Hurricanes play the Indiana Hoosiers tonight in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-124247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124247","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=124247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}