Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

With their regular season complete, the Miami Hurricanes’ chances at the playoffs are on life support.

Miami stayed put at No. 12 in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings. Given the state of the field, the Hurricanes will need BYU and Alabama to lose their conference title games and hope the selection committee slides UM into the No. 10 spot.

The Hurricanes need to reach No. 10 because two teams — either the ACC champion and a Group of 5 team or two Group of 5 teams — will slide into the bracket from above them in the final rankings.

Miami is ranked 12th despite its 10-2 record — identical to No. 10 Notre Dame (a team UM beat in Week 1), No. 8 Oklahoma and No. 9 Alabama.

Immediately after Miami beat Pittsburgh on the road last wee

See Full Page