Notre Dame a 3.5 point favorite (All Miami-ND, Mali News)

[brcane1]

Ready for the ‘Marcus Freeman’s Ceiling is Mario Cristobal’s Floor’ think pieces.

Written by an Oregon beat writer.

 

[brcane1]

You can't really judge teams based on how they play other teams (Sometimes). You got #1 Miami coming into Chapel Hill on Saturday (Halloween) night. That was probably the best game UNC played all year.

That was the best game Billy Edwards may ever play

 

[dantheman349]

I would take ND and lay the points.

The better bet, however, regardless of what happens on Saturday with the fighting pedophiles ... will be when (IF) we play Wake in the ACC Championship game. UM will be favored. Take Wake and the points, whatever they are. Wake is a complete team, much more so than Miami .... although our offense is certainly better.

But I would go with the complete team (Wake) over UM, which is, frankly, a one trick pony.

Show us your ticket with notre dame on it. Anything else is irrelevant

I have Miami ML and will hammer the over.

 

[GojiraCane]

That was the best game Billy Edwards may ever play

2026 Game-by-Game Log

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass Yds	Pass TD	INT	Rushes	Rush Yds
Aug 29	vs TCU	W 15-10	16/28	232	0	0	7	-4
Sep 12	vs ETSU	W 35-3	15/20	244	2	0	2	-3
Sep 19	@ Clemson	L 28-20	13/30	135	1	1	6	14
Oct 3	vs Notre Dame	L 37-26	17/28	209	3	2	3	13
Oct 10	@ Pittsburgh	W 21-17	18/26	249	2	2	4	-14
Oct 17	@ Duke	W 24-20	15/25	191	1	0	9	20
Oct 24	vs Syracuse	L 31-30 (OT)	27/44	271	2	0	4	-14
Oct 31	vs Miami	L 38-35	28/34	341	4	0	8	-2

 

[SnoopRonnyRon]

I've seen lots of posts and podcasts comparing ND's offense to Miami's offense and ND's defense to Miami defense. However, what they SHOULD be doing is comparing ND's offense to Miami's defense, and ND's defense to Miami's offense. That's where the game will be won. Will ND be able to stop Miami's high powered offense, and will Miami's defense stop ND's offensive attack. Not to mention who has the special teams edge.

 

[hymanroth305]

I've seen lots of posts and podcasts comparing ND's offense to Miami's offense and ND's defense to Miami defense. However, what they SHOULD be doing is comparing ND's offense to Miami's defense, and ND's defense to Miami's offense. That's where the game will be won. Will ND be able to stop Miami's high powered offense, and will Miami's defense stop ND's offensive attack. Not to mention who has the special teams edge.

Correct. It’s irreverent how good ND D may be if that D isn’t as good as the Miami O. You saw that with prime Mahomes / Hill team in SB. Yes San Fran had elite D, but irrelevant if the O is simply better. One of my favorite phenomena’s, and hard for people to see coming since D does in fact win championships….most of the time…perhaps not Saturday night. The fact people aren’t thinking like this should comfort you, since people are usually wrong.

 

[insaneinthecane]

Yeah, its not good. DT was a strength. The box could shut down the run game and allow the secondary to clamp up teams, but we are missing key guys at every level now. It was definitely felt vs. BYU and will unquestionably be felt vs. the best offense in the country.

Honestly, just hoping we can turn it into a shootout. I honestly don't think we have the weapons to do that.

Spread your poison somewhere else!

 

[insaneinthecane]

It’s time for a good ole fashioned Miami boat race!!

Let’s Go Canes!!!

 

[Alex_Dynamix]

Unc only 7 point favs over mighty 4-4 UConn. That indirectly says a lot of about how bad our defense is. UNC played us pretty even and only 7 point favs this week.

That’s not how that works fam

 

[Alex_Dynamix]

We are still due to play our first complete game of season. We need to be up for this game. I hope and expect us to be. I think we can and will win.

Mario usually has his teams up for big games so that’s a positive

 

[U got This]

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Lmao he was predicting UM would take L's to aTm and OSU in the playoffs.

Literally doubted the dline last yr.

 

[jakeman1]

I hope Heatherman has the change-up in his bag. He's played the same defense all year. Other teams love to pull out completely different gameplans when they play Miami. It'd be nice to see Miami return the favor.

 

[htownkidd]

Up to 6 on DK.

 

[NC_Canes_11]

It’s gonna close 5.5-6 depending on if the major buyback number is 6 or 6.5

Up to 6 or 6.5 depending on the book. Let’s see if it the buybacks start coming or if nobody believes we have a shot to win.

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

Up to 6 or 6.5 depending on the book. Let’s see if it the buybacks start coming or if nobody believes we have a shot to win.

Not going to lie- our defense being cheeks and looking like the 2024 defense for 2 of the last 3 games is not making me optimistic about the outcome on Saturday. Fortunately we should still be able to get through the ACC unscathed and hopefully Hetherman figures out how to get a little more production out of what we have on the roster as we get ready for the ACC championship and the playoffs.

 

[NDfan]

Spread your poison somewhere else!

I mean, imagine you were going into this game without Moten, Scott, Toure, Bryce Fitzgerald, and OJ. Also Lucas and JJ banged up. And Barkate hobbled.

Then imagine you were doing that going against the Miami O. How would you feel? Thats the equivalent of what ND is looking at.

 

[NC_Canes_11]

Not going to lie- our defense being cheeks and looking like the 2024 defense for 2 of the last 3 games is not making me optimistic about the outcome on Saturday. Fortunately we should still be able to get through the ACC unscathed and hopefully Hetherman figures out how to get a little more production out of what we have on the roster as we get ready for the ACC championship and the playoffs.

Last week has a lot to do with it. If our secondary doesn’t look like trash and validate all the concerns, it never gets above 6. But overall you can take this line with a grain of salt. There’s a ton baked in here. Home field, the spot, this is ND’s season, this only matters to Miami if we don’t win 3 of 4 against teams we’ll be favored by 13-24 against.

Neutral field in the playoffs, this hovers around 3.

 

[Colombie]

So far all I am hearing and reading about is Miami this, Miami that. Miami looked vulnerable. Miami survived another scare.
Blah, blah, blah.

Nothing at all about ND is going to stop Fletcher or ND is going to slow down Malachi or ND is able to stop Mallory or get physical and neutralize our OL or TEs.

That is the reason why we probably win this game outright let alone keep it within the point spread. There’s no real football reasons to believe they can stop us from doing what we want.

 

[WeBallinBoyz]

 

[Orig.CaneSawMassacre]

Well that’s encouraging and what I want to hear. The players were at least extremely frustrated with their performances.