16.34

+1; bye bye

Snooze fest until November

😴

bye-week

Undefeated with a dominant road win at Clemson and a road win at Wake Forest.

A: 2
C: 5
T: 2.6

DNP this week. 2024, 2025, and now 2026 have all seen Miami spend some time in the top five, and yet I still don't think anyone's 100% sure that Mario Cristobal is capable of putting together a true top-five team here. It's hard to be certain when 2024 ended in a late-season collapse, 2025 featured a mid-season collapse brushed aside by an unlikely run to the championship, and 2026 hasn't seen any slam-dunk proof of the Hurricanes' elite status. Still, somebody has to be here, and I don't trust anybody else to deserve this ranking either.

May be the only other complete team besides Georgia

Up 2

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1963.0 -> 2069.7 [+106.7] (#3 -> #3)

Adjustment: 0%

Best 3 Wins: Wake Forest, Clemson, Stanford.
0 Losses
a win over bye always helps
tier 1b: nd, indiana, miami, ucla are all close. but NW + NU > WAKE + Clemson> Wisco + UNC > Oregon, but it is close

(+1) The Miami Infirmary Wards will have to wait a bit longer for their showcase game, because apparently the only other viable one on their schedule came and went against Wake Forest to little fanfare and some “huh, what a weird game” comments. This conference outside of those two and like, maybe UVA still(?) is quite bad. If Miami fails to win their first ACC title game for the first time since joining the conference in 2004(lol) it would be serious coaching malpractice

+2. Would be the #3 playoff seed in this scenario, playing the winner of #6 Ohio State/#11 Wake Forest in the Fiesta Bowl

0.90001

Dominant all season with wins at Wake and Clemson.

+2

Undefeated BCR and didn’t look as good against Stanford as ND.

Overall +31.0; offense +17.8 (4th), defense -13.1 (8th)

2.272 [10.96-1.04]

1344

GippyRank expected rank: 4.5. Central 80% interval: 1–9. Top-25 probability: 99.9%.

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(+2)

0.922, +0, Pow: 5, Off: 4, Def: 12, SOR: 9

Not much to add here during a bye week. Last Week: #7

LW: 5 | Tier 1 | bye

17.72 - Miami (FL) laughs at the rest of ACC's misfortune.

net elo off def ridge fei conf
+26.9 +29.3 43.3 14.0 +26.5 +24.9 ACC

Bye

Miami is continuing to roll their opponents despite injuries, and their quality win over Wake Forest gets better by the week. However with such a weak ACC, they will have to keep this up to stay at #2.

Miami has looked more impressive than Notre Dame, Wake forest win has aged well.

5-0, bye week

86.32

E - on bye, best win is Wake Forest

One of three teams to me that are complete. All 3 are in my top 3. Really no weaknesses, even if they have played an iffy schedule.

Same as ND but played a bit of a scary against WAKE

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100-0-37

.870

Mensah might be my Heisman favorite. Miami looks really good, a couple of more wins and I could see them being higher than Notre Dame and Ohio State.

↑1

Wake Forest looking good helps them out a lot, otherwise their resume wouldn't be any good

W (5-0) A +28 vs Clemson (unranked)
W (4-0) H +49 vs Central MI (unranked)
W (3-0) A +13 vs Wake Forest (unranked)
W (2-0) H +70 vs Florida A&M (unranked)
W (1-0) A +39 vs Stanford (unranked)

(57.38, -6) On BYE this week, so slight drop for now.