{"id":381328,"date":"2026-01-01T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:41:09","slug":"michael-irvin-celebrates-miamis-cotton-bowl-win-over-ohio-state-in-college-football-playoff-bta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381328\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Irvin celebrates Miami’s Cotton Bowl win over Ohio State in College Football Playoff: ‘BTA’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As is tradition at Miami<\/a> games, Hurricanes legend Michael Irvin was in attendance on the sidelines for Wednesday\u2019s Cotton Bowl against Ohio State<\/a>. He was, of course, in great spirits following The U\u2019s victory over the Buckeyes \u2013 and celebrated accordingly.<\/p>\n

Irvin did his \u201cBTA\u201d celebration after Miami put the finishing touches on its 24-14 victory. The win sent the Hurricanes to the CFP quarterfinals, where they will take on the winner of Georgia<\/a> vs. Ole Miss<\/a> in the Fiesta Bowl.<\/p>\n

Afterward, Michael Irvin went to the Miami faithful to bask it all in amid the trophy presentation. He also did his \u201cBTA\u201d celebration, swinging a belt at a Gatorade cooler.<\/p>\n

It was all Miami in the first half of Wednesday\u2019s College Football playoff quarterfinal at the Cotton Bowl. The Hurricanes went up 14-0 at halftime as the defense shined. Ohio State totaled -3 rush yards through two quarters, and Miami notably got a pick-six from\u00a0Keionte Scott<\/a>\u00a0after he jumped the route on a screen pass.<\/p>\n

However, Ohio State made a strong statement to start the third quarter. The Buckeyes marched down the field on an 11-play, 82-yard drive capped by a\u00a0Bo Jackson<\/a>\u00a0touchdown to get on the board. Then, they rolled the dice on fourth down and scored when\u00a0Julian Sayin<\/a>\u00a0found\u00a0Jeremiah Smith<\/a>\u00a0for the score, cutting the Miami lead to 17-14.<\/p>\n

But Miami stayed the course, leaning on a stout defense that made life difficult for Sayin and the Ohio State offense. The Hurricanes eventually forced a punt, which gave them the ball back with 5:53 to play. That gave Carson Beck<\/a> and the offense a chance to run down the clock, and the drive ended with a rushing touchdown from CharMar Brown<\/a> to make it a 24-14 ballgame with less than a minute to go.<\/p>\n

From there, Sayin went back out to try and make something happen. But he threw his second interception of the game, which meant Miami sealed the win in the Cotton Bowl and punched its ticket to the Fiesta Bowl for the College Football Playoff semifinal.<\/p>\n

The ground game led the charge for Miami in Wednesday\u2019s game. Mark Fletcher Jr.<\/a> had 90 of the Hurricanes\u2019 153 rush yards while Beck went 19 of 26 for 138 yards and a touchdown while making some big plays of his own. Fletcher caught Beck\u2019s touchdown pass to help get things underway at AT&T Stadium and start Miami\u2019s quest for a semifinal bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As is tradition at Miami games, Hurricanes legend Michael Irvin was in attendance on the sidelines for Wednesday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-381328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}