Overview
- Kickoff is Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET at Hard Rock Stadium with television coverage on ESPN.
- Sportsbooks list Miami around a 28.5-point favorite, and a Dimers simulation gives the Hurricanes a 98% win probability with a projected 37–9 score.
- Miami enters 6–2 with a top-10 scoring defense allowing just over 14 points per game, while its offense has been hampered by penalties and turnovers.
- Coach Mario Cristobal said WR C.J. Daniels and CB OJ Frederique Jr. are out a couple of weeks, and RB Mark Fletcher Jr. could sit after an injury against SMU.
- Syracuse is 3–6 on a five-game losing streak after QB Steve Angeli’s season-ending Achilles injury, has averaged about 12 points with 11 turnovers in that span, and reshuffled offensive staff including the dismissal of WR coach MyleS White.