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Liam McKeone

Mario Cristobal Had Perfectly Gnarly Metaphor to Describe Miami-Notre Dame Slugfest

Miami and Notre Dame duked it out on Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium in perhaps the best Week 1 game of the college football season. The No. 10-ranked Hurricanes ultimately proved victorious, upsetting the No. 6 Fighting Irish, 27-24. It was a tremendous game and Miami head coach Mario Cristobal offered up a perfect and gnarly metaphor to describe the rainy night in South Beach.

"It was a muddy, bloody night," Cristobal told reporters following his team's victory. "I mean, all night that thing was like ‘Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em' robots. We knew this game was going to be about who had one more shot in them."

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