Ohio State player makes a ridiculous assertion after loss to Miami

After Miami's 24-14 win over Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl quarterfinal, defensive end Caden Curry was asked about the loss and offered a hypothetical that immediately went viral: "If we played that game 10 times, we know what the outcomes of the other nine would be."

That's the kind of thing that should be said in private, instead of right after the loss and to the media. You would think that after talking so much in the pregame, some of the players would have just taken the loss on the chin and moved on. But once it hit the internet, that was all she wrote.

Miami jumped on Ohio State early, turning a Carson Beck touchdown pass into a 14-0 lead when Keionte Scott took an interception 72 yards for a score. The Hurricanes led wire to wire.

Ohio State did make it interesting late. Julian Sayin threw a fourth-down touchdown to Jeremiah Smith to cut it to 17-14 early in the fourth quarter, and the Buckeyes even got the ball back with a chance to tie or take the lead. But the drive stalled, and Miami answered with a long march capped by a late touchdown run to seal it.

The Hurricanes pressured Sayin all night, sacking him five times and picking him off twice, including the pick-six that broke the game open. Sayin finished 22 of 35 for 287 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.

To be fair, Ohio State had reasons to believe it left plays out there. The Buckeyes were shut out in the first half and still made it a one-score game in the fourth quarter. But they still lost. Miami made the defining plays, and Ohio State didn’t. And in the CFP, "we'd win the other nine" is just background noise next to the one that counts.