The Hurricanes also got the one piece of external help that had to happen - the Pittsburgh Panthers beating the No. 16 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 42-28 - to ensure they will enter the final week of the regular season still with a mathematical chance to reach the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game on Dec. 6 in Charlotte.

To get to the ACC Championship game, Miami is looking for a 6-2 conference record for the year, and tiebreakers over others with the same record not named Duke. They will need plenty of help from teams in front of them losing to get in a position to win tiebreakers at 6-2, but it’s possible.

With the end of the college football season quickly closing in, there are only a few regular-season matchups left to take place. One of those games will be a ma

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