Louisville Football Coach Jeff Brohm Latest to Question ACC Officials After Miami Loss

First and foremost, the Miami football team is living up to the preseason hype entering the 2024 season. After two subpar seasons under Mario Cristobal, the veteran head coach went out and loaded up in the transfer portal to make a run not only in the ACC, but for a National Championship. You can't say the same about Virginia Tech.

He brought quarterback Cam Ward and running back Damien Martinez to go along with a taleneted roster and through their first seven games and they have won each game. However, the results in their first two ACC games could have gone either way. Just as Virginia Tech and California fans.

On Sept. 27, the Hokies appeared to have beaten the Hurricanes on the game's final play when wide receiver Da'Quan Felton appeared to catch a Haily Mary pass from quarterback Kyron Drones in the end zone in a sea of players.

The call on the field, which is important, was a touchdown, but after a video review, it was overturned. There was no indisputable video evidence to overturn the call, but it was. There was so much controversy that the ACC felt the need to release a statement on the call shortly after the game.

Fast forward eight days later at California and the Bears holding a 38-32 lead late in the fourth quarter and after review, what appeared to be a targeting call was not called, forcing a Cal punt and Miami, which rallied from a 35-10 deficit, won the game with 26 seconds left on a 5-yard touchdown pass. If targeting was called, the Bears get a first down and the game is over.

You can make the case whether or not the touchdown catch by the Hokies was questionable in the overturn, but it was clear it was targeting that the Hurricanes got away with.

Louisville latest to feel the wrath of ACC officials vs. Miami

Saturday, the officials once again came into play with Miami when the Hurricanes were leading Louisville, 45-38 in the third quarter. Ward dropped back and was hit and appeared to fumble the ball. It was scooped up by the Cardinals' defense and returned for a touchdown to tie the game. Or so we thought.

After a video review, words that are becoming famous in Miami ACC games through their first three games, the call was overturned as an incomplete pass. Of course, Miami would go on to win the game, 52-45, by, yes you guessed it, seven points. Now there is no telling who would have won the game if that call stood and the game was tied, but again, a questionable overturn from replay headquarters in Charlotte saw things differently than the call on the field. Louisville head coach Jeff Brohm didn't hold back his frustration in his postgame press conference.

"I thought it was a bad call. I don't know how you overturn it, I really don't,'' Brohm said. "This has happened multiple times, so it's disappointing. But I don't know. I guess I was wrong."

You aren't the wrong coach and you are the latest, unfortunately, to be on the wrong side of a video review against Miami. Welcome to the club in 2024. It's hard to beat a team as talented as the Hurricanes when you have to compete against the zebras as well. Not a winning recipe.