Miami Hurricanes Ranked 9th, Seeded 4th in second CFP rankings for 2024

Canes fall down, but have the opportunity to climb back up.

On Tuesday night, the College Football Playoff (CFP) committee released the second installment of its rankings for the 2024 season. After setting the foundation for the seedings and revealing some of the underlying logic last week with the first release, this week’s rankings continued along that path as we move through the month of November.

If you’ll recall just a week ago, Miami was undefeated, ranked 4th, and seeded 3rd in the initial CFP rankings for 2024. Miami promptly played their worst game of the year and lost at Georgia Tech last Saturday, so that ranking took a bit of a hit.

Even with Miami’s ranking falling down to (9th, they’re still the highest ranked ACC team at this point of the year. Following CFP logic, that means Miami’s projected as the eventual ACC Champions, and thusly retain their top-4 seed and a bye, if the current rankings held true to the end of the year. Here is the full bracket and seeding, for your viewing pleasure:

Regardless of present ranking, Miami is still in control of their own path to both the ACC Championship Game and College Football Playoff. Logically, it’s a simple path: win the rest of your games.

As it currently stands, Miami is in line for a first round bye. As the # seed, they would be in line to face the winner of 5 vs 12 game, currently ranked/seeded to be Ohio State vs Boise State. But again, there’s a long way to go before any of this is finalized.

2 regular season wins against Wake Forest and Syracuse would put Miami in the ACC Championship game. A win in the ACCCG would Put Miami in the top 4 as ACC Conference Champions and earn the Canes a bye to the quarterfinals.

So yes, the loss to Georgia Tech was a bad result and gives little to no room for error for Miami to lose another game this year and make the ACCCG or CFP.

Time to regroup, refocus, and go win.

Go Canes