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Why Carson Beck, Miami are one of college football's biggest unknowns
Josh Pate previews the Hurricanes' 2025 season and explains why a difficult late-season schedule could make it to advance to the College Football Playoff. Subscribe to 'Josh Pate's College Football Show' on YouTube.
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What do you expect from Miami this year?
I've been asked that, so I'll ask all of you that because the one thing that I think we need to do a better job of on this campus here at FSU is we need to make sure that if I'm gonna get trashed for my predictions, which is totally fair, and it is within your constitutional right that you have to state your prediction up front.
So I haven't even made a Miami prediction yet, but if you think Miami's gonna be trash this year, that's OK, but let me know in August.
There's a comment section.
It works here.
I know it works here.
So let me know in August.
No, I mean everyone knows in December whether something went good or went bad, but they're an unknown.
They're an unknown because Carson Beck's the quarterback there.
They're an unknown because the offensive and defensive lines profile as the kind of lines of scrimmage That could land you in a national championship game, but no one's predicting Miami to go to the national title game.
Half of you aren't even predicting them in the playoffs.
In fact, three quarters of you aren't predicting them in the playoffs, and that's because you either don't trust the coaching staff, you don't trust the quarterback, you don't trust the defense.
And speaking of that, Corey, Heatherman, year one, are they gonna make a quantum leap in defensive production?
I, I think their personnel is a little bit better than what D'Anton Lynn had to work with when he got to USC or what Blake Baker had to work with when he got to LSU, but it's a total unknown and they got a much more difficult schedule for those of you who, um, unfortunately and regrettably took an offseason.
I haven't spoken to you about Miami's schedule.
Miami's schedule is such that If they were to make the conference title game.
That would be their eighth game in a row because the ACC has seen fit to give, I think, three of their teams both of their byes within a fifteen day period.
Don't let you people say I'm not qualified to be the commissioner of this sport, but yet the people who are running the sport are putting schedules together like this.
Listen to this.
Miami plays Florida on the twentieth of September by week.
They play FSU October fourth, another bye week.
They're done.
No more bye weeks the rest of the year: Louisville, Stanford, at SMU, Syracuse, NC State at Virginia Tech and at Pitt back to back road games in cold weather late November for a team from South Florida to end the year.
And if they make it through all that and they're good enough to play in Charlotte, that is a third consecutive game away from home, maybe in cold weather, who knows what Charlotte has in store for you in December, but anyway.
It's a much more difficult path to navigate with, I would say, more uncertainty this year, but that's what makes it an unknown that's not necessarily what makes it a weakness.
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