Ah crap.
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Really screws travel planning - especially with airfare.
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In the season preview of the OL position, Martin admits the OL is pretty young and inexperienced, but he seems pretty confident that several guys, particularly Kris Manu, are ready to step into the fire.
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One of the changes with college and Pro football which have happened over time is that the TV income for teams is more than the game revenue and part of that is teams agreeing to sacrifice game time scheduling and fan happiness with late time start changes to better help TV revenues.
No argument on that. College football has increasingly become a made for TV sport. Many schools - including Miami -.have actually downsized stadium size. Others have replaced existing stadiums with smaller ones.- like Northwestern. Eighty years ago an optimum football stadium might have been 60 to 100k. Today an ideal new P4 stadium would probably be 35 to 50k and a new G5 stadium would probably in the 25 - 35k range.
A couple of G5 conferences have even followed the MAC in offloading weekend games to weekdays, decreasing average in-stadium attendance.
Nice coincidence that the Extra Points newsletter covered Virginia Tech documents outlining ACC TV viewership (with a pretty clear correlation to winning) and general expenditures.
Interesting to note that the lowest-budget athletic department in the ACC (probably Wake or BC) still spends $85M per year, more than double our $38M estimate. Unsurprisingly, all four of the future scenarios have the G5 conferences on the outside looking in.
ESPN.com project Miami in a bowl … and surprisingly it’s not the Rose or Fiesta Bowl. Oh well.
Wednesday, Dec. 17
68 Ventures Bowl
Hancock Whitney Stadium (Mobile, Alabama)
8:30 p.m., ESPN
Schlabach: Georgia Southern vs. Miami (Ohio)
-OR-
Friday, Dec. 26
GameAbove Sports Bowl
Ford Field (Detroit)
1 p.m., ESPN
Bonagura: Maryland vs. Miami (Ohio)
I’d prefer Detroit. Just my $.02
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Nothing screams Boxing Day better than an afternoon in Detroit.
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https://x.com/kfordratings/status/1957142096445648952?s=46&t=ZH1fFGwu8Q0191V3SgsUtQ
Absolutely INSANE
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There is no faster way to telegraph to the world you know f all about football
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I think they got their Miamis mixed up
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For G5 teams these guys know nothing about they just look at returning production so since we have no returners we are low
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KFord Miami rankings:
Offense: 135
Defense: 39
Special Teams: 5
Insane in all directions 
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I can see that and agree a million percent with you. They just lose credibility in their brand as expert. Put another way, I could just randomly pick any terrible movie that comes out and tell you it’s gonna win an Oscar. Doesn’t make me a film expert.
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The SP+ preseason rankings weren’t far from those numbers too, I’m not mistaken.
My prediction is 8-4/6-2. Stumble out to 0-2 against the Big Ten while the offense jells, win next 6, then lose 2 of last 4. Right in the hunt for Detroit again.
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I think our offense is better than people think. Last year we had Gabbert still recovering from an injury. This year I think all the receivers and Finn will be rolling. Plus Tracy back should be big
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If you want to know how we will likely end up, follow Ballcoach. He’s now 3-3 in the last three seasons. I think he has us at 8 wins.
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I think with an entirely new offensive line, and it sounds like more than 5 will be playing in the beginning, it’s REALLY important to have a mobile QB like Finn. He will probably get more rushing yards from dropback scrambles than from designed runs, at least in the first half of the season. I’m very confident that Miami’s offense will be above average with him out there as he’s a capable thrower too.
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I am very optimistic for this season, but there are certainly alot of question marks. Pretty much all new faces on offense, a very different offensive scheme to maximize Finn compared to Gabbert (especially last year’s Gabbert who lost what mobile quality he had last year).
On top of all that, the first 3 games of the season are likely our 3 toughest games all year. I’ve seen a few pick UNLV for the G5 playoff spot. I really could see 3-0 or 0-3 coming out of this. Even at 0-3, I’d expect us to compete for Detroit. If everything clicks and we do 3-0…sky is the limit.
I really think we could steal one up in Madison, but we probably need them to be flat and for Finn to ball out.
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only ranked this way to no offense starters returning.