The latest installment of "Why The ACC Can’t Have Nice Football Things: Volume Infinity" played out Saturday in South Florida. It played out in a mostly empty stadium, off a toll highway somewhere between Fort Lauderdale and Miami, where a once-proud college football program added another sad chapter to its recent (and now not all that recent) history.
It’s a chapter that could be called “Eight Turnovers,” or, perhaps more directly: Duke 45, Miami 21.
Almost 20 years ago now, the ACC thought it was marrying rich when it landed the Miami Hurricanes in what was considered, at the time, to be an expansion coup. Miami was among college football royalty throughout the 1980s and 90s, and as the early 2000s gave way to the middle part of that decade there was little to suggest that Miami wouldn’t remain a power.
