Latest Mario Cristobal News
Bowl action? There was plenty, and the best came far away from the spotlight of the college playoffs
Somewhere in the fight-filled, money-chasing hustle that the college bowl season has become, a national champion will emerge. Too bad that so far, hardly any of the games on the road to that national championship have been worth a hoot. And interesting to see that all...
Miami parts ways with defensive coordinator Lance Guidry after 2 seasons
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami parted ways with defensive coordinator Lance Guidry on Tuesday, after the Hurricanes failed to make the College Football Playoff and allowed 42 points in each of their final two games of the season. The Hurricanes had gone 50-0 in games since the...
Miami's Cam Ward sets NCAA's Division I record with 156th career touchdown pass
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Cam Ward made NCAA history in his final college game. The Miami quarterback threw a record-setting 156th touchdown pass of his college career Saturday, connecting with Jacolby George for a 4-yard score with 4:12 left in the first quarter of the Pop-Tarts Bowl...
No. 18 Iowa State wins 11 games for 1st time, tops No. 15 Miami 42-41 in Pop-Tarts Bowl
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It was a season of Iowa State comebacks. And fittingly, that's how it ended for the Cyclones. Game MVP Rocco Becht scored from a yard out on fourth-and-goal with 56 seconds remaining and No. 18 Iowa State capped the best season in school history by rallying...
Mario Cristobal, on now-retired Miami men's basketball coach Jim Larrañaga: 'He is iconic'
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Miami football coach Mario Cristobal wants now-retired Miami men's basketball coach Jim Larrañaga to do at least one more thing for the Hurricanes. Cristobal wants him to share all his knowledge. A day after Larrañaga announced his sudden...
Left out of the playoff, Miami and Iowa State have something still to play for in Pop-Tarts Bowl-
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Cam Ward missed out on the College Football Playoff, the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game and the Heisman Trophy. He's not missing one more chance to play for Miami. Ward and the 15th-ranked Hurricanes (10-2) take on 18th-ranked Iowa...
After playoff chances slip away, Miami and Iowa State looking to regroup at Pop-Tarts Bowl
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami probably was one win away from getting into the College Football Playoff. Iowa State definitely was one win away. Their consolation prize of sorts: playing one another. The Hurricanes and Cyclones — a meteorological matchup — have...
Florida International announces hiring of Willie Simmons as football coach
MIAMI (AP) — Florida International hired Willie Simmons as its football coach on Saturday. The public university did not immediately release terms of its agreement with Simmons, who spent this season as the running backs coach at Duke. Simmons went 45-13 as the head...
The CFP rankings — and 'data points' — have left Miami, Ole Miss and South Carolina puzzled
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami wants things reconsidered. So does South Carolina. The Big 12 is puzzled. And Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin turned toward social media to ask the College Football Playoff committee a question. “You guys actually meet for days and come up with these...
Miami coach Mario Cristobal stated his CFP case. The committee saw things differently
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami coach Mario Cristobal stated his College Football Playoff case Tuesday morning, imploring the selection committee to “go to the facts” when deciding if the Hurricanes deserve an at-large berth into the 12-team field. The committee saw things...
