Previewing Miami's opener against UAB
Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast
247Sports, Miami, Miami Hurricanes, Miami football, Miami athletics, College Football
4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Year 2 of the Manny Diaz era will get underway Thursday as Miami squares offer with UAB. Andrew Ivins and David Lake get you ready for the game. The two take a look at some players to know for the Blazers and explain why the Group of 5 program shouldn't be taken lightly. They also highlight some Hurricanes that could have big nights and dive into some projections from Sportsline before making score predictions.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome back to another episode of Through the Smoke, a Miami Hurricanes podcast here on the 24-7 Sports Network. |
| 0:27.2 | Third podcast in three days, David. We are getting you guys ready for UAB game. |
| 0:34.0 | Obviously Miami opening up the 2020 season, Thursday night against UAB, 8 p.m. |
| 0:41.1 | on the ACC network. David, are you ready for this thing or what? Yeah, man, I was, I'm ready. I was |
| 0:47.8 | telling you before we, we hit record on this podcast, I don't know if I can remember being more |
| 0:53.5 | excited about the start of a season, |
| 0:56.5 | you know, partly because I do think Miami's going to be a fun team this year to follow and watch. |
| 1:02.0 | And also, too, you know, just getting back to some sort of sense of normalcy with just how strange |
| 1:09.0 | 2020's been, right? So I'm super excited game day. |
| 1:14.5 | You know, as we're recording this, it's, what, 32 hours away? |
| 1:20.1 | I think it's going to be fun. |
| 1:21.5 | I mean, we'll dive into it, but UAB is a legit matchup. |
| 1:25.5 | Right, right. |
| 1:26.1 | And, you know, before we kind of roll through the preview, I do have some housekeeping. |
| 1:33.5 | If you guys have not heard our other podcast from this week, Monday we broke down the |
| 1:38.1 | Too Deep, kind of shared which freshman we think is going to play the most snaps on Thursday |
| 1:43.3 | night. |
| 1:46.8 | Tuesday, we had former UM star linebacker DJ Williams on the podcast. He was actually really good. I wish we could have gone |
| 1:52.2 | much longer with him. But the main reason why we got him on is because we have partnered up |
| 1:58.3 | with dime life. We are doing a football pick um challenge um through |
| 2:02.6 | CBS sports. You guys are going to pick 10 games a week against the spread. That is free. Um, |
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