Miami Hurricanes coach Mark Richt said before the ill-fated season opener vs. LSU how tough it was to really know what to expect of your team because, unlike the NFL, “we don’t have warmup games here.”
Oh but they do! College football has warmup games, too. It’s just that they come during the season, not before it.
UM had one of those Saturday night in a 77-0 home-opening rout of lower-tier, overmanned Savannah State, the largest margin of victory in program history. Going from LSU to Savannah State is competitively like going from a fight in a UFC octagon to the challenge of out-maneuvering an infant in a crib.