Miami finished with 5.69 points in the final 2000 Bowl Championship Series rankings. Florida State barely edged out Miami with 5.69 points to earn a berth in the Orange Bowl against top-ranked Oklahoma to determine the National Champion.
The current College Football Playoff Committee determines which teams make it subjectively. Twenty-five years later, Miami is once again involved in controversy. Miami's season-opening win over Notre Dame is polarizing over how much impact it should have on determining who earns a CFP berth.
The question of if Miami or Notre Dame should be higher in the CFP rankings has often been related to how much emphasis should be placed on a game played on August 31. ESPN College Football pundit Paul Finebaum, who frequently criticizes Miami, said that the Hurricanes' win over Notre Dame should matter.
The X account BCSKnowHow posted an update of the 2025 standings. Miami is 14th in the modern version of the BCS Standings. The Hurricanes are 13th in the week 12 CFP rankings. Miami will find out where it is ranked by the CFP committee for week 13 on Tuesday night. Notre Dame is ninth in the BCS standings.
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How Miami compares in the BCS to other metrics
Most of the other major metrics sites have Miami higher in their ratings than the CFP committee or the BCS standings. Miami is 10th in the ESPN Football Power Index and the Team Rankings predictive metrics and eighth in the Sports Reference Simple Ratings System.
ESPN college football reporter Heather Dinich wrote in August that the CFP committee would be using enhanced metrics in their 2024 rankings. "In the current schedule strength metric, more weight will now be applied to games against strong opponents," per Dinich.
"A new, added metric of "record strength" will help the committee determine how teams performed against their schedule, rewarding those that beat high-quality opponents while minimizing the penalty of losing to one," according to Dinich.
One of the biggest criticisms has been that Notre Dame is being rewarded more for losing to Miami and Texas A&M than the Hurricanes are for beating the Fighting Irish. For all the criticisms about the BCS standings, it was determined by an algorithm and took out human subjectivity.