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Cover 3 College Football

Early 2026 Miami Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School

Cover 3 College Football

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bud Elliott sits down with David Lake of InsideTheU to preview Miami’s  2026 season.


Team Site: https://247sports.com/college/miami/ 


(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:00:50) - Vibe Heading Into 2026

(00:03:00) - Returning Coaches 

(00:04:30) - Darian Mensah

(00:07:30) - Offensive Line  

(00:12:10) - Wide Receivers

(00:15:30) - Running Backs 

(00:18:40) - Defensive Front 

(00:23:45) - Secondary 

(00:27:30) - Cristobal’s Analytics  

(00:30:30) - Backups

(00:32:15) - Schedule Breakdown 



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0:00.0

Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore.

0:07.3

Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready?

0:09.3

Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command.

0:19.0

What's going on, y'all, Bud Elliott here of the Cover 3 Collegeball podcast, and this is Summer School.

0:23.4

School is in session today.

0:25.5

Miami, David Lake, Inside the U, always joins us a great, great job covering Miami,

0:29.9

and always awesome insights.

0:31.3

Coming off a fantastic season, national championship game, just, I mean, 13 wins.

0:40.3

Like, kind of Mario Cristobal's vision kind of coming to life you know the like team got so much better over the course of the year what i assume

0:45.1

the vibes you're just immaculate down there right now but it's crazy like i've never seen

0:49.6

miami operate at this type of level and it's crazy to think about like, okay, you know, college football in a lot of ways, trajectory

0:58.1

and success, like it can be on a razor's edge, right?

1:01.3

It can go one way or the other way very quickly based on stuff that can kind of be out of

1:06.8

your own control.

1:07.6

And like, it's crazy to think about like, okay, let's say the committee in the final day

1:12.5

didn't flip Miami and Notre Dame.

1:15.4

Would Miami, Miami would still be in an okay spot, but would it be in this type of

1:20.6

spot where, look, they don't have the sustained success of like an Ohio State or a Georgia

1:26.5

or an Alabama, et cetera. But like just snapshot-wise,

1:30.8

the way that they're operating here in 26, like they're in that ballpark of program right now

1:37.1

in terms of like talent in depth on the field, the level of recruit that's rolling through

1:43.3

all spring long and the buy-in from the administration top to bottom like miami is the university's all in on football uh it's crazy to think about like would it still be like this like to this elite level if if on decision day miami and Notre Dame weren't flipped.

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