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Miami-OSU game landmark moment in NFL Draft Production

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Pretty good article highlighting what many have stated before, I know @DMoney shouts it from the rooftop but this is something at the time of kickoff many nationwide did not want to acknowledge or were ignorant to.. Talent level on the rise..



Miami's 24-14 upset of Ohio State in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Cotton Bowl was notable at the time, for a few obvious reasons:
-- it was the end of Ohio State's bid to become college football's first repeat champion since 2021-22 Georgia, which would've been doubly special given that both would have happened in the 12-team era
-- it threw open the national title race with the elimination of a co-favorite
-- it was proof-of-concept for Mario Cristobal's ability to return Miami to the national elite
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The loosening of the SEC's stranglehold on elite NFL draft talent is all but set in stone for the 2026 draft, with most mocks projecting as few as one SEC player among the top 10 and many placing none in the top five. (As recently as 2023, six of the top 10 played in the SEC.) But a CBS Sports mock, released Monday, drives the point home further. With the obvious caveat that this is just one man's opinion and the actual draft is still weeks away, CBS forecasts that an historic seven of the top 13 players in the 2026 NFL Draft were on the AT&T Stadium turf on New Year's Eve. I'm not here to say seven of the top 13 picks on the same field has never happened before, but I am saying I've never found another example of it. (The historic Miami-Ohio State title game at the end of the 2002 season "only" produced four top-13 picks in the next two drafts, all of them Hurricanes.)
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MIAMI PROJECTED TOP 100 DRAFT PICKS
Francis Mauigoa, OT: No. 3 (Arizona Cardinals)
Rueben Bain, Jr., Edge: No. 7 (Washington Commanders)
Akheem Mesidor, Edge: No. 12 (Dallas Cowboys)
Carson Beck, QB: No. 44 (New York Jets)
Keionte Scott, Safety: No. 70 (Cleveland Browns)
Anez Cooper, IOL: No. 75 (Miami Dolphins)
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skyman said:
Pretty good article highlighting what many have stated before, I know @DMoney shouts it from the rooftop but this is something at the time of kickoff many nationwide did not want to acknowledge or were ignorant to.. Talent level on the rise..

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Beck should be swapped with Scott at minimum on the bottom quote
 
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