Miami Finally Wins A Fiesta Bowl

If Miami would've drawn up the ideal scenario for them to come out on top of Thursday night's Fiesta Bowl matchup against Ole Miss, they would've said it needs to be low-scoring, with Miami using the ground and pound game to eat up as much clock and energy on offense as possible, both to wear out Ole Miss's defense and to keep the ball away from Trinidad Chambliss. For about three quarters of the game, that was just how things were going. Miami had dominated time of possession, were running over Ole Miss at will, and defensively had completely disrupted Chambliss and the Rebel offense's flow. Unfortunately for the Canes, they just couldn't score. Multiple promising drives were ruined by penalties and inopportune sacks, plus a missed field goal. And so, despite being dominated for the majority of the night, the cardiac Rebels just kept hanging around and hanging around.