Fresh off a defensive clinic in a 10-3 College Football Playoff first-round win on the road over No. 7 Texas A&M, the No. 10 Miami Hurricanes head into a rematch of the 2002 national championship when they face No. 2 Ohio State in Wednesday night’s CFP quarterfinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN). The Hurricanes (11-2) looked like legitimate national title contenders for much of the season, but a pair of losses to Louisville and SMU in a three-week span dropped them out of the playoff picture, only to leap ahead of Notre Dame for the final spot when the 12-team field was announced. In order for Miami to have a shot to pull the upset over the Buckeyes (12-1) in the first of the four CFP quarterfinal games, ESPN’s Paul Finebaum believes there is a “recipe” it should follow. “There is a recipe. What Miami has to do is replicate what it did on the road at Kyle Field against Texas A&M and then do a little bit of stealing, stealing Indiana’s recipe against Ohio State in the Big Ten
