Miami's Playoff Path Highlights the ACC's Steep Decline

So, let me ask you a question, then. If they were upset, if they were upset, are they fighting for their playoff lives next week in South Bend? No. I don't think so. They're number one in the country with a month left in the season, and it would depend. Like, you lose North Carolina, you lose Notre Dame, you're obviously going to fall out of probably the top 10, top 15. If you don't lose another ACC game, you go to the ACC championship, and you're looking at Duke, Virginia Tech, and Boston College on the roadmap here. You go to Charlotte, you win the ACC title, you go to the playoff. It's that simple. If you lose one of those three games or lose in the ACC title game, then Miami does not make the playoff with three losses. I do think you can lose to North Carolina and lose to Notre Dame and win out and make the playoff, yes. So next week would not be for the playoff spot. It's just, Luke, it's very, very interesting to me, and I don't hide my frustration on it, But it's frustration with the way... People discuss Notre Dame. I have a very, very, very close friend who's a diehard Miami fan. And there'll be times he goes, why are you always mad at us? It's not our fault the way people talk about Notre Dame. Like, there's some truth to that. It's just, I look at the Miami schedule. Let me put it another way to you, Dave, and I'll see if you agree with this. The Big 12 is a mile better than the ACC this year. It's not even close. It's not even close. Like... I understand that the power four is really the power two, but the ACC is not supposed to be this bad. It's not. And it's bad. And it's just, but it's not only bad, it feels irrelevant. Like, I think that this is fair to say, GameDay is in Bloomington for an Indiana-Minnesota game with a bigger spread than this for a game, by the way, that's not on their network. The game is not on That family of networks, the number one team in the country plays on their network, and they could go to Bill Belichick's house. Pretty good storylines, guys. Is it because, I don't know, maybe the answer is they're going to Notre Dame next week, so they don't want to do Miami games back-to-back. It is so sad, embarrassing, the state of the ACC right now. I think it has to do with the fact that Miami back-to-back, you don't really want to do that because you have a show and half your show is about where you're at and the team that they're playing. And yeah, it would be North Carolina. It would be South. It would be Notre Dame. So you got the Miami would be the road team in both situations, but you're still talking both teams. Um, that. That's my best guess. And obviously you also have a guy who's the shining knight of that show in Pat McAfee who also... Happens to live in the state of Indiana. Are you sure they're not going to go to Baton Rouge next week? Like, not to make this all about where they're going. I'm just saying I don't understand why they're not. They should be in Chapel Hill, but I feel like it's an indictment on the ACC. I just do. I feel like it really, really is. It is, and if you go back and look, and I don't have the sheet in front of me, but if you go back and look at the history of game day, I'd find it very rare that they would go to a spot that has a double-digit spread. Like, it's just 14.5 points, and I know I just took North Carolina. But this, I've said it three times already, Miami could win this 40-10. And then your game day, you don't want to be at a site that's a blowout. And Miami could absolutely blow out North Carolina. So that's got to be part of it is ACC's a joke. This could be a blowout. No one cares about North Carolina. I don't understand going to Indiana, Bloomington. I don't get that one as well. But yeah, they'll be in South Bend next week. Don't worry about that one.