Ole Miss vs. Miami Showdown: Defense Key to Victory?

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00:00Ole Miss underdogs getting three and a half points tonight from the

00:03Hurricanes total 51 and a half at the opening number.

00:06You see that graphic.

00:06We're not the 52 and a half across the board.

00:09Pete Golding last stand out here.

00:11Mario Cristobal.

00:12He can never win the big game despite winning back-to-back big games.

00:15Now, as we see it, I can't wait for this to start as a Miami fan.

00:19It's feels like Joe.

00:20We've been talking about this for five years, this game.

00:23And finally we have it tonight.

00:26Yeah, we do.

00:27And I thought for a minute there you were going to dance on the ceiling.

00:30But never mind.

00:31We got a whole, yes, I know.

00:33What a feeling it is.

00:34And it's got to be for Miami as well.

00:37I think this is strength versus strength.

00:39I'm looking very forward to this game here tonight because the thing that has

00:44always hampered Miami, right, going back a long time,

00:48but most recently in Cristobal's era,

00:50is that they just couldn't beat the elite teams, the good teams, right, Donnie?

00:55They would always seem to fall flat, and that would be the end of that.

01:00Well, they've kind of done away with that because when you look at the teams

01:04that they had to rattle off wins against down the stretch here,

01:07including that final game against Pitt in the regular season,

01:11it was a top 25 team.

01:12Then you have to go to A&M and win a game, which you did.

01:16Then you had to take on Ohio State, who was number one in the country most.

01:20You ended up handling business there.

01:22This defense is a legit defense.

01:25Ole Miss, they've faced some pretty good defenses, Donnie, have they not?

01:29I mean, they had to play Georgia twice.

01:32They've also had to play Oklahoma, which a lot of people thought was the best

01:36defense in the country.

01:38And they have averaged, you know, well over four touchdowns in those games

01:43against those good defenses.

01:44So they're accustomed to seeing quality defenses, but I do think that this is

01:49a different animal with Miami, and I do, and you and I have talked about it

01:53all week, of both these games, the one shootout we're going to get is likely

01:58in this game, but I do think ultimately defense wins or at least gets you

02:03to championships, and I think Miami's defense will make a few more plays

02:07in this one to give them the win and a chance at a national championship.

02:11Here's Pete Golding talking about making it to the semis here in college

02:15football.

02:16November 30th, everything changed for you and your team when Lane Kiffin

02:19decided to leave for LSU, and a lot of people didn't think you would be here

02:23right now at the national semifinal in the Fiesta Bowl.

02:26So what is your message to Lane Kiffin and to all those who maybe have given up

02:31or lost hope and you keep proving them wrong as you're here right now in Phoenix?

02:35Yeah, I don't have a message for anybody else.

02:37You know, I think our team, right, our team had a message.

02:42They had a message about how they prepared and how they play and that they

02:46weren't tired of playing, and I do think the message is I'm replaceable,

02:50you're replaceable, our players are replaceable, right?

02:53I think you want to build a program to where it's heading in the right direction

02:56and one person, one player, anything like that's not going to derail that.

03:00There's been too much invested in that and it's been aligned correctly that one

03:04person is not going to impact something so drastically.

03:08If it is, it's probably not built right, right?

03:11If one coach in any sport can determine the outcome of it,

03:14he probably doesn't have a very good staff, right?

03:16I mean, if one player can determine the outcome of it,

03:18we probably didn't recruit and create the right depth, right?

03:21Or we didn't prepare him and be ready for his opportunity.

03:23It's a team game.

03:25I mean, there's so many people that go into it.

03:27So the timing of when it happened, in my opinion,

03:30it couldn't happen at a better time for the players because everything was

03:34already in place, right?

03:35Everything was on the track.

03:36It's headed the right direction.

03:37We got really good players, right?

03:39There was already a culture created.

03:41They knew the expectation.

03:42The only thing that was different, who's running out of the tunnel.

03:45And to be honest with you,

03:45I don't think the players give a damn who runs out of the tunnel.

03:48Does that make sense?

03:49They care about their plan.

03:51They care about getting held accountable, right?

03:53And how they're going to prepare.

03:54And they care about people that care about them, right?

03:57And I think that's been the message.

04:00By the way, Pete Golding looks like he could either be 25 or 55, Joe.

04:06Well, he looks a lot closer to 55.

04:08He didn't look like that when he was just a DC, Donnie.

04:11Did you notice that?

04:11Now he's got like pencils in the hair.

04:14He's got all, it looks like he hasn't slept in 12 months.

04:18So yeah, that'll do that.

04:19A lot of pressure on him.

04:21But I mean, listen, kudos.

04:23If he manages to win this game, he doesn't have to win a national championship.

04:28Just get to the national championship and they'll build a library for him at Ole Miss.

04:34I can assure you of that.

04:36Let's hear from Mario Cristobal with a quick little clip here.

04:39You know, I don't think people realize how good the teams in the ACC are.

04:42Okay.

04:42And I hope now that they're realizing that more and more as we advance,

04:46because those are the teams that we play in our conference.

04:49They do great in this, in the CFP.

04:53That's why they got the full amount of the 14 million for bowl season.

04:57Mario's like, you know what?

04:58You gave us the check.

04:59I'll compliment you, ACC.

05:02Listen, we got to stop with it.

05:04Nobody cares that Miami's in the ACC.

05:06They might as well be independent at this point here,

05:09because the fact that their ACC is irrelevant here.

05:13They have dominated teams from the SEC in the playoff as well as the Big Ten.

05:18So I can assure you the ACC has no bearing on the Miami Hurricanes.

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