It's about time. The Hurricanes are finally the talk of the ACC Conference. The Canes were not a dismal program since entering ACC Conference play in 2004, but along the way, the Hurricanes did not dominate the conference, let alone, compete for an ACC Conference crown.
When the dust settles in the ACC Conference, the Miami Hurricanes college football program would love to end up on top. Complacency has become the ruin of many programs that are consistent in winning conference titles and competing for national championships. This season, there has become a shift in ACC conference supremacy. The Clemson Tigers have enjoyed a firm grip on the ACC and their opponents for almost a decade.
If you factor in how the Clemson Tigers were the "creme of the crop" in the ACC, year-after-year, one will not become wrong in prognosticating another ACC title for the reigning champions of the Atlantic Coastal Conference. Although, the Hurricanes have been conference members for over twenty years, it seems as though the Canes are viewed as the "upstarts." In the 2025 college football season, the "upstart" Miami Hurricanes will receive every ACC opponent's best. Many of the opponents the Hurricanes will encounter are ready to dampen the Canes' meteoric national rise.
For the 2025 Miami Hurricanes football program, becoming complacent in a conference they are expected to win must not become a mindset that is entertained. Sure, the Hurricanes will be the hunted, but after years of underperforming in epic games and contests in past seasons, the complacent mentality must become turned into an insatiable yearning to "be the best", in particular, the nation's best.
The Miami Hurricanes must not dwell on past season failures, but also the country's second-best program should use last season as the fuel to achieve prolonged success, in an unpredictable conference that has been unfavorable to a "proud program", finally in a position to solve Atlantic Coast Conference woes.