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TemplarCane said:
My guess would’ve been 24-10 Canes.

Oklahoma had a great defense, but Miami would win even in crappy weather.
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🤔 Possible. But with the amount of time their defense would’ve been on the field, we would’ve ran away with it eventually.
 
uprising said:
🤔 Possible. But with the amount of time their defense would’ve been on the field, we would’ve ran away with it eventually.
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I am only factoring in the inclement weather.

Miami wins in a rout on a beautiful south Florida evening.
 
We had a solid between the tackle runningback in James Jackson. Others have said and I'll agree, underrated. He wasn't necessarily an explosive runningback, and we didn't ask him to be one. Our offensive line was good enough to open holes for him for 4-7 yard gains. So in terms of the weather, we had it covered.

Dorsey had enough under his belt where he could still get the ball to Wayne and Moss. Moss was a menace on Special Teams.

Our defense could match up against OU's offense. OU belonged in the national championship picture (undefeated, beat four top 25 teams in doing so), that's undisputed.

We probably win something like +10-13.

But there was no plausible reason why FSU was the team to play OU. They lost against us when they were No.1 (we were No. 7), and we lost to a 15th ranked Washington team early on in the season. The argument (and I imagine the computer argued too), that FSU technically had a stronger SOS than we did (they faced four top 25 teams, we faced three). But come on, we beat them.

We also beat No.1 FSU, and No.2 Virginia Tech within a four week period (VT we beat 41-21).

There was a reason the media fluffed us up the next season. They KNEW they ****ed up. A funny statistic about the 2001 Hurricanes; we would've went 8-4 had we not scored a single offensive point.

That's crazy.
 
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