{"id":9774,"date":"2025-10-18T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9774\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:22:10","slug":"miami-sent-warning-on-penn-state-florida-states-fate-after-week-8-loss-to-louisville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9774\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami sent warning on Penn State, Florida State\u2019s fate after Week 8 loss to Louisville"},"content":{"rendered":"

The No. 2 Miami Hurricanes<\/a> suffered a fairly unfathomable 24-21 loss to the Louisville Cardinals<\/a> on Friday night at Hard Rock Stadium, largely due to four interceptions from Georgia Bulldogs<\/a> transfer Carson Beck.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, the Hurricanes will fall in the rankings, as USA Today\u2019s John Leuzzi<\/a> notes, just as the Penn State Nittany Lions<\/a> did with a 42-37 loss to a previously winless UCLA Bruins<\/a> in Week 6 and the Florida State Seminoles\u2019 46-38 double-overtime loss to the Virginia Cavaliers<\/a> in Week 5.<\/p>\n

Leuzzi sees the drop as more likely to look like FSU\u2019s after the UVA loss than Penn State\u2019s after the UCLA loss because the Nittany Lions were coming off back-to-back defeats when they tumbled by double-digits in the post-Week 6 poll.<\/p>\n

Leuzzi added the obvious caveat that things could shift drastically if Saturday is filled with major upsets after a shocking Friday night where the Minnesota Golden Gophers stunned and manhandled the Nebraska Cornhuskers 24-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis season, losses to unranked teams have been rather sizable and drastic. An example of this is Penn State dropping from No. 6 to No. 22 in the US LBM Coaches Poll following an unranked loss to UCLA, but that did come after a loss to No. 5 Oregon the week prior. A better example for Miami’s circumstances might be Florida State dropping 11 spots after a double-overtime loss to Virginia a few weeks back. But given that it is the first loss of the season, voters may be more lenient towards Miami in their ballots,\u201d Leuzzi wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that all said, the odds Miami finds itself still in the top-10 or just on the outside of the top-10 in a No. 11 or No. 12 spot are pretty favorable for the Hurricanes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily for Mario Cristobal\u2019s squad, losing to Louisville isn\u2019t a bad loss in the Jeff Brohm era. The Cardinals could end up ranked after the win, if anything.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s fair to question if Miami ever deserved top billing next to the Ohio State Buckeyes, Indiana Hoosiers, and Oregon Ducks<\/a> after losing as a multiple-score favorite on their home field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 2 Miami Hurricanes suffered a fairly unfathomable 24-21 loss to the Louisville Cardinals on Friday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-9774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9774","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=9774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}