ESPN used their Football Power Index to create their 64-team bracket. Each team was placed into 16-team regions that were classified as the South, Southeast, East and West brackets. The other eight seeds show how far the Miami football program has fallen since the stellar 2017 season.
Iowa State, Kentucky, Baylor join UM as eight seeds. The eighth seed means Miami is favored to win their first-round game over ninth-seeded Nebraska. Or are they? Miami and Nebraska have had a great intersectional rivalry. The Cornhuskers and Hurricanes battle date to the 1951 season at the Orange Bowl.