Jeremiah Smith calling out Miami for tampering should infuriate Mario Cristobal

Why does this not surprise you? Jeremiah Smith may hail from Miami, but he stars for the Ohio State Buckeyes up in Big Ten country. The best and most talented wide receiver in college football has one more year left at this level before he turns pro. He probably would have been a first-round pick after his true freshman season at Ohio State, if he was eligible... Of course, it is why everybody wants him.

So when he accused Miami of tampering with him after the Cotton Bowl, it has not landed well at all...

"No, I wasn't surprised. I mean, I knew especially at the end of that game that a certain program was gonna go come at me very hard. But I'm not gonna say no names. I think everybody here knows who it was, but I wasn't going nowhere."

Here is everything that Smith is alleging happened between him and Miami after the Cotton Bowl.

No. 10 Miami handed No. 2 Ohio State an unexpected loss in the College Football Playoff last winter.

Mario Cristobal must be mad over what Jeremiah Smith said about Miami

Look. Mario Cristobal is trying to build something special at his alma mater of Miami. While it was a breakthrough season for the Hurricanes under his guidance, they did not win the ACC or the College Football Playoff. Getting to the national championship game was a gargantuan step in the right direction, but Indiana still proved victorious. We have to wonder if Cristobal can lock down Miami...

Let's be real. The best player in college football last season grew up minutes away from Coral Gables in Indiana star quarterback Fernando Mendoza. His father played on the same high school team as Cristobal at Christopher Columbus high school. Had he have been offered by Miami, maybe the Hurricanes have national title No. 6? If Smith did not go play for Ohio State, maybe he would be here?

Ultimately, this all sounds like he said, she said coming from Smith. If Ohio State wants to believe him, then more power to them. The beautiful part in all of this is Miami and Ohio State could meet once again in the College Football Playoff again next year to solve this once and for all. These are two of about eight teams who have serious aspirations of winning the whole thing in January, but will they?

For now, we are at the part of the offseason where we will create mountain ranges out of mole hills...