Big announcements for Miami football Thursday
The Miami football program will learn their dates and times of their 2020 schedule at 9 AM ET and five-star defensive tackle Leonard Taylor will announce his college decision at 1 PM ET on Thursday.
The Miami football program will have its biggest day of the summer when the announcement of the dates and times of their 2020 schedule will be released by the ACC at 9 AM ET and five-star defensive tackle Leonard Taylor will announce if he is committing to the Florida or Miami football program at 1 PM ET.
The ACC released the revised schedule of conference opponents for the 2020 season last month. Miami will play at Clemson, Louisville, North Carolina State, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest. The Hurricanes host Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Virginia. Miami is expected to host UAB in non-conference.
The UAB game was originally scheduled for Thursday night September 17. If the game remains that date or is moved to the weekend it would be the second weekend of the season. The ACC scheduled the week of September 7 which begins with Labor Day as the start of the season. That would create an ACC season opener.
The ACC schedule was revised in July from eight conference games and four non-conference games to a 10 plus one schedule for the 2020 season. Games at Clemson, Louisville and North Carolina State were added to the Miami schedule, Duke was dropped and Georgia Tech and Virginia were changed to Hard Rock Stadium
Taylor will announce he is attending either Miami or Florida live on CBS HQ Thursday at 1 PM. The nation’s 27th ranked player, sixth-ranked DT and third-ranked player in Florida has all nine crystal balls logged for him projecting himt to commit to Miami. Taylor would the second five-star recruit for Miami in 2021.
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Miami received a commitment in July from the top athlete and highest-ranked player in Florida in the Class of 2021, James Williams. Williams is the ninth-ranked player overall for 2021. The expected commitment from Taylor on Thursday afternoon would move Miami from 11th to eighth in the national recruiting rankings.