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Miami Loses Wild Game with Simple Ending

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Possibly we have had wilder games than Clemson beating Miami 40-37 in overtime. Just don't waste any energy trying to look one up online. There certainly hasn't been one since the Internet was born.

And the end -- the finish was so ridiculously simple after all that had gone on before.

Jacoby Ford simply caught a pass from Kyle Parker and ran 11 yards into the end zone for a touchdown. The end.

Until that moment, from the end of the curiously scoreless first quarter onward, it was chaos unchained, high skill confronted with eye-popping incompetence, a funny/sad/uplifting/downcasting kaleidoscope of just about everything that can happen in football.

Everything except one team buttoning down the other.

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