00:00Miami's favorite at Virginia Tech today, Joe, was 17 and a half, was 16 and a half.
00:04Now it's 18 and a half with a lot of outlets here on game day with a total of 49 and a half.
00:08The same thing goes even more than Notre Dame, who could probably get away with a 21-point victory today.
00:14Miami has to crush this number.
00:16Also, because you have to doesn't mean you do, right?
00:18On the road at Virginia Tech, 50-degree temperatures, not as bad as it could have been here for late November.
00:23But, Joe, talk to me again about Miami.
00:25They should win this game, but it's not about just winning this game.
00:28No, it's not.
00:29And if you want to look at a body of work for Miami, what happens?
00:32They struggle on the road.
00:34Look at the SMU game.
00:35Look at last year's Syracuse and G-Tech.
00:37Something with Mario Cristobal.
00:39When they go on the road, either they come out flat or they don't play up to expectations.
00:43I really like Virginia Tech today.
00:45Remember the game last year, and you and I and Kevin fought about it.
00:49The 50-50 ball where they had the Hail Mary on the last play of the game, it could have went either way, right?
00:55Instant replay goes to Miami.
00:58But I'm saying, Virginia, and they were a 14-and-a-half-point underdog in that game.
01:02Now this team is dead and buried.
01:04It's the last home game for the Virginia Tech Hokies.
01:07They're breaking out white camouflage today.
01:09And guess what?
01:10James Franklin will be there, the new head coach.
01:13Does that add extra juice?
01:15There's rain, light rain in the forecast.
01:17That potentially could slow down Miami.
01:20This could make it a closer game.
01:22I'll take the 18-and-a-half.
01:23I think Vatek is alive.
01:24By the way, if you are a James Franklin, put the headset on.
01:28Take a spin, Joe.
01:28It's free.
01:29It's like a –
01:30Why wouldn't you go to the locker room and pump them up?
01:33I'm just saying this right now is a program that has new optimism.
01:39Montgomery is a former head coach at Tulsa.
01:42He's done a pretty good job.
01:43Kyron Jones is a quarterback that's mobile.
01:46Abused them on the ground last year.
01:47And this is an offense that could still run the football in Virginia Tech, a buck 87 on the ground.
01:53Again, I know that Miami smashed Syracuse, didn't cover, but smashed NC State, too.
01:59This is a different animal in Blacksburg and Lane Stadium.
02:02I'm curious to see at 12 how this game plays out.
02:05By the way, getting your thoughts, too, on Virginia Tech.
02:07We have plenty of times to get some of these other games, but it's fun to talk about, like, a new coaching change that happens here.
02:12You have James Franklin.
02:13To be honest, I think it's a perfect hire.
02:16It is.
02:16I really do.
02:17It's exactly similar to Vanderbilt, where he took the team to nine and four back-to-back seasons, won two bowl games in a row,
02:25had players like Zach Stacey and Jordan Rodgers and some of the others that just stepped up and dominated throughout, you know, the Commodores.
02:33One of the heydays for Vanderbilt, right, for the most part, winning back-to-back bowl games,
02:38knocking off teams like NC State and Mike Lennon back in the day.
02:41That's how he got the job, right, over-exceeding expectations at a place where it was tempered.
02:46Same thing now with Virginia Tech.
02:48This is in 1999.
02:50Mike Vick, Marcus Vick aren't walking out there.
02:53Randall.
02:53This is a team.
02:54Brian Randall, right.
02:55This is a team that's just looking to get back to eight or nine wins and challenge the likes of Miami and some of the other teams like Georgia Tech now that are the frontrunners in the ACC.
03:06That's what James Franklin can bring you.
03:08He can recruit.
03:09The problem is going to be if Vitek somehow, someway makes it to the college football playoff in the next two or three seasons,
03:17can he win that game will ultimately dictate whether they're back on.
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