Mario Cristobal joins the show to discuss the CFP and Signing Day
Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast
247Sports, Miami, Miami Hurricanes, Miami football, Miami athletics, College Football
4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This is a big week for the Miami Hurricanes football program.
The College Football Playoff will make its final decision on the field of teams included in the postseason tournament and Miami is squarely on the bubble as the debate between the Hurricanes and Notre Dame rages on.
National Signing Day was also this week and UM welcomed in its next crop of talented players in a class that ranks tenth best in the country.
Oh and UM head coach Mario Cristobal joins the show to discuss the College Football Playoff decision between the Hurricanes and Irish and recap UM’s efforts in the talent acquisition space with another great class being signed.
You don’t want to miss this episode. Enjoy the show.
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| 1:16.9 | Welcome back to another edition of Through the Smoke, a Miami Hurricanes football and recruiting podcast here on the 24-7 Sports Network, David Lake, joined as always by Gabby Burruthia. |
| 1:23.6 | We're here to discuss how Miami's getting screwed out of the college football playoff, but I think Miami, and I think you and I, Gabby, are confident that will be fixed by the time of the final ranking on Sunday. |
| 1:38.4 | But we're going to share all our thoughts on that situation. |
| 1:41.0 | We're going to kind of recap an uneventful, but still exciting and worth celebrating |
| 1:46.6 | National Signing Day. And we also want to touch on a little bit of maybe portal preview talk. |
| 1:53.2 | Portal opens in January this year, and we can maybe lay the groundwork as to, you know, |
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