The Hurricanes (9-1, 5-1 ACC) will take the field Saturday for their conference matchup against Wake Forest looking to get back on track after a tough outing at Georgia Tech two weeks ago.
Miami’s players and coaches know that in that 28-23 loss, they weren’t at their best.
And so, they’ve spent the last two weeks doing their best to study the mistakes they made, correct them and prepare for a Wake Forest team that will come to Miami on Saturday looking to upset the eighth-ranked Hurricanes.
“You’ve got to be able to take coaching, be coachable, be able to take constructive criticism, so that’s really it. The main thing is the main thing,” said quarterback Cam Ward, who has completed 67 percent of his passes and thrown for a nation-leading 3,494 yards and 32 touchdowns. “We’re trying to win football games. We’re trying to control our destiny, and you know, we’ve just got to come out with [and] have high urgency. That’s something we didn’t have two weeks ago. But we got better. We’re better in practice, practicing hard. A lot of stuff from practice translates to the field. So, we’ve just got to keep on doing the little things that we’ve been doing on both sides of the ball and hopefully get a win this week.”
This season, the Hurricanes have shown their ability to handle challenges.
Three times, they’ve rallied from double-digit deficits. They’ve responded in hostile road environments. But Saturday’s game will be their first test after a loss and both Ward and his teammates, say it’s of utmost importance for them to show they can handle that particular test.
To that point, they’ll rely on the mantra they’ve worked to follow all year: go 1-0 on the day.
“I think any day we’re coaching, it’s going to be the same thing. There’s too much going on in the outside world. There’s too much clutter,” said head coach Mario Cristobal. “There’s too much coverage and hype and noise to really do anything else but make sure your guys are focused on the task at hand, and streamlining it even more, the practice at hand, the meeting you’re about to walk into, the walk-thru that you’re taking part in. Without a doubt, it’s been emphasized. We’re going to continue along the lines of that. That’s not going to change.”
While Miami looks to honor its seniors and become a 10-win team for the first time since 2017, Wake Forest (4-6, 2-4) comes to South Florida looking to snap a two-game losing…
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