Midday on New Years Eve, college football fans will be watching as two big time programs tee it up; despite their current records and recent sub par play.
Miami and Notre Dame will meet for the first time since the rivalry ended after the 1990 season.
It’s not where either team pictured they’d be back in September when kicking off the 2010 season. The Canes were expected to improve after last year’s 9-4 run, while the Irish welcomed in new head coach Brian Kelly, who led his Cincinnati Bearcats to an undefeated regular season in 2009 and was expected to start righting the ship in South Bend.
Miami sputtered down the stretch, losing three of five en route to 7-5, after once sitting at 5-2. Notre Dame was 1-3 out the gate, but finished strong with a shellacking of Utah and a season-ending victory at Southern Cal; their first against the Trojans since the 2001 season.
Both teams are looking to close the season 8-5 and for bragging rights between now and 2012 when slated to meet again at Soldier Field during the regular season.
The 2010 Sun Bowl kicks off at 2pm ET and will be broadcast on CBS.
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OK, we fired our coach a week ago. Since then, we have spent 3-4 days on Gruden, just find out he want the U to hire his brother ...
There is only one coach openly express his interest to coach the U, and he is clearly not our favorite. In the mean time, there are multiple articles trashing this program, pointing out that "Hurricanes football head coaching job not alluring ..."
Man, I hope I am wrong, but I am feeling this HC changing will be similar to the last one, and the future is nothing but bright. We might also need a more capable AD ...
sorry, I mean "anything but bright"
Unless this team gets very motivated to play, we could see another Bowl Game debacle. As pumped up for this match-up, you have teams going in opposite directions.
Canes - underachieved at years end
ND - found some game at the end of the season.
Get a win for the seniors and pride
GO Canes
Any word on what Hocutt's plans are in NYC? Does he have scheduled interviews, and if so, with whom? Is he there fishing for candidates? What's the deal?
Thanks in advance!
GO CANES!!!!!
We MUST beat this Team! I remember watching the U play ND as a kid with my grandfather. What a heated RIVALERY! Man those were the good old days for CANE fans..
UM must hire the right guy this time arond to get us back to the top. Good Luck Kirby....
As a Miami alum currently living in South Bend I can't wait for the Canes to shut up the Domers! The trash talking has already begun here (by both the media, the players and the townies) with comments like Miami should feel at home playing next to Juarez, the most dangerous city in Mexico. I think they sometimes forget that South Bend is a complete and total dump. Other BS has surfaced about ND playing Thug U and 75% of the team not being able to read. Amazing how easily they forget about their unnamed, rumored STARTING player who is awaiting the prosecutors decision to file charges in a Sexual Assualt case where the girl committed suicide 10 days later. Nice cover up ND and area officials! The tarnished dome needs a beat down to remind this area what they truly are, CLOWNS!
GO CANES!
Miami Fans = Fanemies. The longer the coaching search goes along the more and more I realize coach Shannon got a raw deal, in large part because of the fans. Lifelong cane fan, but its becoming harder and harder to affiliate myself with such an undeserving fan base. Love the team, hate the fans. Seriously wakeup, South FL fans in general are becoming the laughing stock of the broader sports nation (seriously a team with Lebron, DWade and Bosh has to tell its fans how to "fan up") it's flat out embarrasing.
I REALLY THROUGHT AFTER FIRING SHANNON THEY WOULD LAND THAT BIG NAME COACH RIGHT AFTER BUT WITH THE CHOICES WE ARE LOOKING AT (UNLESS WE GET A LEACH LEAVITT COMBO) WHAT WAS THE POINT IN FIRING SHANNON!!!! NONE OF THESE OTHER CLOWNS WILL GET OR STEAL RECRUITS OR FAIR MUCH BETTER THAN 5 LOSES!!!!! BE REAL ....MIAMI HEADS ARE LOST AND CONFUSED.SEEMS AS IF THEY ARE BEGGING!!! MIAMI VS NOTRE DAME ...SOUNDS GOOD BUT REALLY..LETS PRAY AND HOPE FOR GUIDANCE HURRICANE NATION!!!!
Living In The Wrong Place....remind Notre Shame fans that USC dropped a wide open, game winning TD at the end of the game. They are MORE than fortunate to be where they are. By the way Miami scored just as high as they did in the APR or whatever the test was this year - 100%. Tell them to be relevant for the first time in the last 25 years first, and then talk second.
Columbus Cane
I would take Jay Gruden in a heartbeat to coach this team! The guy has been successful no matter what team he has been with, whether it be arena, ufl, Bucs, etc. Jay has that fire to succeed so not sure what the knock was against him in the first post here. I'd take him over Jon Gruden any day.