After an inconsistent season running the ball in 2017, the Miami Hurricanes will look to improve their rushing attack in 2018.
Coming off of a 2017 season where the Miami Hurricanes won 10 games for the first time since 2003, made the ACC Championship for the first time ever and signed their first top ten recruiting class since 2012, expectations will be high in 2018.
Athlon sports ranked Miami fifth in their way-too-early college football rankings. ESPN ranked the Hurricanes eighth in their way-too-early college football rankings.
Athlon also predicts Miami will win the Coastal Division and play in the ACC Championship again in 2018. For the Miami Hurricanes to live up to these expectations as well as their own, the running game must improve.
Miami ranked 71st in the FBS in rushing last year with 2,090 yards, averaging 160.8 yards per game and five yards per rush. Out of 14 ACC teams, Miami ranked ninth in rushing.
The Hurricanes 106 rushing first downs ranked 12th in the ACC and Miami’s 19 rushing touchdowns were tied for ninth in the ACC. Miami ranked last in the ACC in time of possession averaging 26:30 per game.