Miami may have played the final game of the season at Hard Rock Stadium. On Saturday, the 10th Hurricanes lined up for a New Year’s Six Bowl berth and a possible place in the Orange Bowl in their arena. Instead, North Carolina could be the school to play in Miami on January 2nd. The 17th Tar Heels won the hurricane defense 62-26. With a total of 778 yards in North Carolina, Miami is the highest single-yard single game ever left. UNC rushed to 554 yards, QB Sam Howell had a DD, a fast DD and a receiving DD. Miami could not stop directing Michael Carter and Javont Williams. These are both 544 yards and each average over 10 yards. Carter had 308 yards and Williams had 236 yards. This is a top college football record for most rushing yards by a pair of teams in a single game. Williams hit three touchdowns to bring his season total to 22. It sets an average of two touchdowns per game and one North Carolina school record for getting DDs very quickly in a single season. North Carolina ran all over Miami on Saturday. (Via Al Dias / Miami Herald AB) To the North Carolina Orange Bowl? The Orange Cup looks like Tar Heels’ goal for a cup game if the ACC gets two teams in the college football playoffs. Both No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 3 Clemson make the playoffs, which should be in line with the UNC Orange Cup. The bowl game is bound to pick the highest ranked ACC team that is not in the playoffs, and that team will play a Big Ten or SEC opponent. It’s hard to see how UNC will lag behind Miami in Tuesday’s CFP rankings. Loss. Tar Heels dominated Miami in every aspect of the game. Miami’s reality check? Maybe this is a hurricane awareness call. Yes, Miami entered the game as a top-10 team, but the Hurricanes had that position on the shoulders of some close wins. The Hurricanes beat Duke 48-0 a week ago without playing for weeks due to COVID-19 lawsuits. But all three games before that break were not filled with trumpets. Miami won all three games by a total of nine points. Hurricane Virginia fell 19-14, NC State 44-41 and Virginia Tech 25-24. Story Continues Miami is still a good football team. But it is much closer to the good than the big at this point. That too is not an accusation. This is a team that has already won more games in an epidemic-brief season this year than it did in 2019 or 2018. More from Yahoo Sports:
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