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Know Your Enemy - 2026 Miami Hurricanes vs 2026 Florida State

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The following is a side-by-side comparison of Miami and Florida State's rosters

Names in green denote incoming players in their first year in their respective programs:

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AVERAGE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
  • 2026: 1.59 years (Miami), 1.40 years (Florida State)
  • 2025: 1.72 years (Miami), 1.81 years (Florida State)
  • 2024: 1.81 years (Miami), 2.04 years (Florida State)
  • 2023: 1.84 years (Miami), 2.31 years (Florida State)
AVERAGE 247 RATING
  • 2026: 0.9054 (Miami), 0.8851 (Florida State) *
  • 2025: 0.9026 (Miami), 0.8909 (Florida State) **
  • 2024: 0.9010 (Miami), 0.8942 (Florida State)
  • 2023: 0.8994 (Miami), 0.8807 (Florida State)
*excludes transfers Adam Booker (LS), whom was not listed on 247's transfer compilation
**excludes transfers Carter Davis (PK) and Adam Booker (LS), neither who are listed on 247's transfer compilation

If special teams are excluded, Miami's composite is 0.9093. Florida State would be 0.8884


MIAMI POSITION ADVANTAGES (RATING)
  • Wide Receiver (Miami .9179, Florida State .9021)
  • Tight End (Miami .8967, Florida State .8916)
  • Offensive Line (Miami .8974, Florida State .8688)
  • Quarterback (Miami .9084, Florida State .8758)
  • Defensive Tackle (Miami .9155, Florida State .8871)
  • Defensive End (Miami .9304, Florida State .9080)
  • Linebacker (Miami .8953, Florida State .8796)
  • Safety (Miami .9073, Florida State .8736)
  • Cornerback (Miami .9129, Florida State .9016)

FSU POSITION ADVANTAGES (RATING)
  • Running Back (Florida State .9108, Miami .9046)
**excludes one special teams transfers

MIAMI POSITION GROUPS THAT HAVE IMPROVED IN 2026 (RATING)
  • Tight End (.8967 vs .8846)
  • Offensive Line (.8974 vs .8922)
  • Quarterbacks (.9084 vs .9062)
  • Defensive End (.9304 vs .9301)
  • Safety (.9073 vs .8960)
  • Cornerback (.9207 vs 9083)
  • Special Teams (.7933 vs .6999)

FLORIDA STATE POSITION GROUPS THAT HAVE IMPROVED IN 2026 (RATING)
  • Wide Receiver (.9004 vs .9003)
  • Tight End (.8916 vs .8911)
  • Quarterback (.8758 vs .8704)
  • Defensive End (.9080 vs .9031)
  • Linebacker (.8796 vs .8720)
  • Safety (.8736 vs .8643)

NOTES
  • The 2026 Hurricanes have the highest blue-chip total of any squad in the last twenty-one years. It presently jumps from 48 in 2025 to 59 this year
  • This is Florida State's most inexperienced team of the last four years. It also has less experience than any of Miami's 2025 opponents
  • Florida State has three position rooms (wide receiver, tight end, defensive end), where the average college football experience is one year or less
  • Only at linebacker and special teams does Miami have a position group with more than 2.0 years of CFB experience; Florida State also two groups with 2 or more years of average experience (running back and special teams)
  • Miami has 21 transfer portal players on the roster compared to 22 the previous season
  • Florida State has 30 transfer portal players on the roster compared to 31 the previous season. 23 arrived this offseason
  • FSU has the experience edge in running back, offensive line, quarterback, defensive tackle, and cornerback
  • Miami brings in 43 new players this season, Florida State 56
 
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grover said:
Seeing him as rated the 8th best WR on the team roster based on so-called scouting experts when he's a top 3 WR in the country is pretty damning of the rankings. I know the correlation is there between rankings and draft selection. But man is there a lot of error and noise in the data.
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Yup. While there's a positive correlation with rankings and production, there's significant variance. Guys fall through the cracks all the time. Even guys at big time high schools. Just recently off the top of my head - Toney, OJ, Bryce. Moten at DT didn't pop as a FR like others, but still a former 3 star will worked his way to being one of the top DTs in the country.
 
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I would consider it directional. I wish 247 would rerank each player, each year.

What is interesting is that both teams are carrying less collective college football experience over the last four years.
 
It has honestly become laughable that fans still dig into this like it's a heated rivalry. When was the last time I felt real passion or a fire inside about playing FSU as you do a real heated rival? It had to be Winston and Jimbo years at the latest. Again, for those old enough to have experienced the once biggest rivalry in football for a good decade, yes #1 at the time, has been unrecognizable for 20 years. I put no thought into the FSU game.
After last seasons events, This 2026 ND game will be the most heated rivalry Miami fans will have experienced in 20+ years. Enjoy it, young posters and realize how it looks, feels when a true heated rivalry is happening between 2 real powerhouse programs playing with real dislike and emotions against each other. This is the game a fan of one of these programs must attend if anyway possible. Maybe then, young fans will understand why older fans want both teams to be powerhouse programs when they play. I get zero emotion beating FSU right now. None and it is sad, but I also know our real #1 rival is the Gator as little as we play them now.
 
Cane30 said:
It has honestly become laughable that fans still dig into this like it's a heated rivalry. When was the last time I felt real passion or a fire inside about playing FSU as you do a real heated rival? It had to be Winston and Jimbo years at the latest. Again, for those old enough to have experienced the once biggest rivalry in football for a good decade, yes #1 at the time, has been unrecognizable for 20 years. I put no thought into the FSU game.
After last seasons events, This 2026 ND game will be the most heated rivalry Miami fans will have experienced in 20+ years. Enjoy it, young posters and realize how it looks, feels when a true heated rivalry is happening between 2 real powerhouse programs playing with real dislike and emotions against each other. This is the game a fan of one of these programs must attend if anyway possible. Maybe then, young fans will understand why older fans want both teams to be powerhouse programs when they play. I get zero emotion beating FSU right now. None and it is sad, but I also know our real #1 rival is the Gator as little as we play them now.
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I was around when we were both good, **** them. Hope they lose every game they play and their fans have to walk around in shame. No quarter.
 
GojiraCane said:
I would consider it directional. I wish 247 would rerank each player, each year.

What is interesting is that both teams are carrying less collective college football experience over the last four years.
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Absolutely this.

Chart their journey from HS ranking through last year.

Would you give a "zero" for redshirt/injury year or remove it entirely from data set? Not an insult to player, just have to normalize the data somehow across those that play X games vs those that don't.
 
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Cane30 said:
It has honestly become laughable that fans still dig into this like it's a heated rivalry. When was the last time I felt real passion or a fire inside about playing FSU as you do a real heated rival? It had to be Winston and Jimbo years at the latest. Again, for those old enough to have experienced the once biggest rivalry in football for a good decade, yes #1 at the time, has been unrecognizable for 20 years. I put no thought into the FSU game.
After last seasons events, This 2026 ND game will be the most heated rivalry Miami fans will have experienced in 20+ years. Enjoy it, young posters and realize how it looks, feels when a true heated rivalry is happening between 2 real powerhouse programs playing with real dislike and emotions against each other. This is the game a fan of one of these programs must attend if anyway possible. Maybe then, young fans will understand why older fans want both teams to be powerhouse programs when they play. I get zero emotion beating FSU right now. None and it is sad, but I also know our real #1 rival is the Gator as little as we play them now.
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I still feel a real passion and fire inside for humiliating those pieces of **** from Trailerhassee.

Only just a couple of years ago they were acting like they were the ****, and really had something going. They actually looked down on us. Believe me, I’m passionate about a humiliating those stupid *****.
 
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They’re the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
 
Empirical Cane said:
Absolutely this.

Chart their journey from HS ranking through last year.

Would you give a "zero" for redshirt/injury year or remove it entirely from data set? Not an insult to player, just have to normalize the data somehow across those that play X games vs those that don't.
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If I were them:

1. Redshirt - Largely unchanged from high school, unless reporting from spring and summer camps, as well as in-season practice provides a metric to move up or down
2. Injury - Largely unchanged, unless the injury is very severe and is projected to affect long-term potential
 
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