Miami Florida State Rivalry Is Back!

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The Florida State and Miami football rivalry is back if just for a thrilling Labor Day night after the Hurricanes rallied to a 38-34 victory that went down to the game's very last play. The Hurricanes stymied six Seminole tries from within the 10-yard line, punctuated by an incomplete pass as time expired, to secure victory.It was simply the best game of a great, sometimes controversial opening weekend of college football. The fourth quarter was a see-saw of excitement, the teams trading leads right to the final minute. The Hurricanes rallied from 31-24 and 34-31 deficits before claiming the final margin thanks to a Graig Cooper touchdown run with just under two minutes left.Miami almost blew the game in flubbing a squib kick that left Florida State with plenty of time and the ball at midfield. Florida returned the favor by turning quarterback Christian Ponder loose on third and three, running wild to the Hurricane 12 setting up the dramatic finish.
Unlike the heartbreaking night against Ohio State in the 2002 BCS Championship, the Hurricanes held off three successive Seminole efforts before getting an eerily similar late penalty that reset the downs with nine seconds left. Again they repelled another three efforts, the final pass sneaking just below a Seminole receivers' hands, incomplete.
The star of the game was 'Canes quarterback jacory harris, whose calm demeanor and mobility hid a killer's mentality as his arm went wild on the way to 386 passing yards, a Hurricane record against Florida State. It didn't help that the Seminoles' secondary and tackling was atrocious, but he made great plays throughout. Miami's secondary wasn't much better as christ ponder threw for 294 yards of his own.
Previous Miami-FSU affairs have been lacking, to put it mildly, but those who weren't burned out by the previous few games and tuned in Monday were treated to something special. Neither team showed enough to be considered a top-10 power right now, but for the first time in several years both looked like they might get their act together over the course of a season.

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wow we lost i think go fsu