Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to the Hurricanes' 28-23 loss to the Yellow Jackets and discuss the ramifications of Miami's first loss of the season on potential College Football Playoff seeding. Subscribe to the “College Football Power Hour” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Down goes number four, Miami at Georgia Tech, the ramblin wreck, take down the formerly undefeated Hurricanes 28 to 23 and fits, it was very obvious early on what Georgia Tech's game plan was and I thought that it was brilliant.

Keep the ball out of Cam Ward's hands.

Georgia Tech eight up clock ran the ball really effectively, almost five and a half yards of crack.

They had the ball for almost 35 minutes during this game, but it's clear fits that when Cam Ward isn't allowed or isn't given the opportunity to do Superman things.

This Miami team looks much different.

Yeah, eventually Miami was going to fail Cam Ward and this happened to be the weekend that it happened.

Uh, you can make the argument.

There were some plays offensively where receivers weren't able to pull down balls as they should have.

I thought that was a bit of a fail and, and to your point, this defense just absolutely could not get the ball back.

And it's funny because Miami's defense has lived eat and breed this year on forcing turnovers.

Well, you can't force turnovers against the Georgia Tech team.

That's simply not putting the ball at risk ever.

All they did was run the ball right down the throats of Miami.

And I'm telling you, Caroline, this is the sort of moment that the committee's gonna see that they're going to question the toughness rightfully so of this Miami team.

And remember that the top four seeds in the college football playoff get a first round by.

That doesn't necessarily mean that a power for conference champion has to get one of those first round buys.

I'm looking at Boise State or whatever group of five representative is going to be representing the group of five that could very much so leapfrog the AC C or the big 12 for one of those top four spots in the college football playoff.

Rightfully so, by the way, because if Georgia Tech just did that running the ball to Miami, is it not fair to say that Ashton deny?

And Boise State would do the same exact thing.

This is an epic film for Miami in a season that looked absolutely gold is now sitting on the brink of disaster because there is a very clear path that could leave them out of the college football playoff.

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