Live Miami Hurricanes @ Wake Forest Demon Deacons 9/18/2026

[rocci]

This team is the complete opposite of 2025, soft as baby ****

2025 lost a game like this to SMU and Louisville. They grew up in the playoffs. This is not a finished product. Dawson will improve from this game. He has scars from Beck on games like this.

 

[TXCane20]

This is where things can get ugly. We now have tape on how Wake basically shut down the Miami offense in the 2nd half. Teams are going to replicate.

I really can't explain the complete flip drop off of the offense in the 2nd half.

Gotta think a lot of that was the injuries. Had to oversimplify the plan. When Fletch and Toney were healthy we were fine. Still need Barkate to step up. And get SJ off the **** field

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

That’s pathetic- the canes team we dream to get back to would have rolled they 3Q into a 40 pt win. This team is going to have to all really step up because they can’t rely on Mali all season and this o line doesn’t make Mensah believe in having protection late in games.

Yeah that's the undercurrent I am worried about. Mensah like lost a lot of faith in his offensive line after this and now it's going to be in the back of his mind the rest of the season.

 

[ssvir]

Yeah Cristobal kinda of f#cked himself in the offseason by trusting his ability to "develop" offensive linemen. We had the money to get good transfer offensive linemen. Mensah is probably going to fall out of 1st in the Heisman race as well because of the garbage 2nd half.

I don’t give a **** about the Heisman.

Win the Natty and give Mensah $8M to stay another year

 

[mr.h]

Mensah 30/34 and it looked meh

 

[Gocanes1990]

This offensive line needs to figure it out fast

 

[ssvir]

Offense went into a shell and Menseh stopped throwing down field. Glad the defense stepped up.

Except for Lofton for some unknown reason

 

[Santana Sosa]

We have to get Cooper more touches. No way Lofton should be getting more looks.

This was the most insane thing! 9 had sooo many targets!

 

[Tinman64]

Dam we need to hope toney isnt too serious even though he gutted it out … how did fletcher get hurt ??? Missed that one .. on a positive moore got dinged late came back… lofton got hurt came back … moten as well …

 

[nightclubnel]

We were killing then in the 1st half but as always, we go conservative

 

[Tinman64]

I think it goes way deeper than just what they were doing. Theres more to it than just they called a better half

Could be

 

[SWFLSWAGG17]

Because our offensive line is trash and can’t block long enough to allow a deep play to develop.

It takes no time to throw an out or slant. Mensah was not able to get anything on the throw where lofton was wide open and he missed him. Hopefully nothing serious but it's telling they didn't attempt anything more than 5 yards downfield

 

[Tinman64]

This offensive line needs to figure it out fast

Yup … has issues

 

[SWFLSWAGG17]

How did the offense not score the entire half? Do we rely on Toney that much?

It's because I had Miami over 38 and a half. I take full responsibility for Miami's inability to score.

 

[MumbleRap]

Injuries are starting to pile up at alarming rate

 

[TemplarCane]

• Offensive line played like **** the second half
• Wake Forest recognized this and was able to bring pressue
• Fletcher and Marty Brown both got hurt
• I believe Mensah was dinged up in the second half
• I believe Maili was dinged up as welld

This is the kind of game Miami blows in the past.

This year they stepped up and held on for the win.

 

[PennsylvaniaCane]

No we didn't dominate them in the 1st half. We are good pass blocking. The big runs were because of the defense they played.

If we were do dominate, then why the drop off in the 2nd half?

We ran for 100 yards in the first half. We had balance. Second half Mali gets hurt. The game plan, which obviously revolves around him went out the window. Dawson didn’t have any answers and became 1 dimensional.

After the TD in the 3rd quarter we ran the ball 3x. It’s the same bs we did against Syracuse a couple years ago when we went up by 3 TDs and just kept throwing the ball letting them back into it.

After the 3rd quarter TD where we ran for 36 yards on 5 carries, we ran the ball 3x on the next 4 drives.

 

[TheUnuffSAID]

Yeah that's the undercurrent I am worried about. Mensah like lost a lot of faith in his offensive line after this and now it's going to be in the back of his mind the rest of the season.

Mensah made me feel like I was watching 01 Dorsey in the 1H then instantly catapulted me into a 2H of Jarren Williams vs any mid ACC opponent.

 

[SWFLSWAGG17]

Heatherman is fraud . Bain got two fraud defensive coordinator paid

This is quite literally the dumbest Post in the history of CIS and that is saying a lot

 

[ssvir]

This is where things can get ugly. We now have tape on how Wake basically shut down the Miami offense in the 2nd half. Teams are going to replicate.

I really can't explain the complete flip drop off of the offense in the 2nd half.

Replicate playing man? Good.