The Miami Hurricanes survived a wild day of college football to avoid becoming the fifth top-10 team to lose Saturday when they pulled out a 39-38 comeback win over the California Golden Bears.
Miami outscored Cal 21-3 in the fourth quarter to secure the victory. For the second straight week, Miami quarterback Cam Ward led a touchdown drive in the final two minutes to give his team a late lead, this time finding tight end Elijah Arroyo in the end zone with 25 seconds left for the game-winning score.
After the game, Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal could barely hide his disdain for ACC leadership, who made the Hurricanes travel across the country to play a game at 10 p.m. ET against a team coming off a bye week.
“Credit to them, they had two weeks to prepare for us. We got every wrinkle, every call you could imagine, and they, you know, it’s awesome. It’s awesome to travel three thousand miles, have the air conditioner busted in there, and have the opposing team have two weeks to prepare for it. Aside from that, everything’s perfectly fine,” the 54-year-old head coach told the media after the victory.
While it’s easy to dismiss Cristolbal’s complaints as whiny or privileged, there’s some truth to them. If any of the college football power conferences are now insisting on being coast-to-coast due to constant realignment, those conferences owe it to fans, players, and coaches to make things fair.
