Miami, CFP mulling plans for Hard Rock conflict

The University of Miami and the College Football Playoff are moving connected a contingency program to relationship for a imaginable Hard Rock Stadium scheduling struggle if the Hurricanes marque the playoff and gain a first-round location game.

LaLiga, Spain's top-flight shot league, officially announced its plans past week to clasp the Barcelona-Villarreal crippled successful Miami connected Dec. 20 -- the aforesaid time arsenic the archetypal circular of the CFP.

The CFP's apical 4 seeds gain a first-round bye, and the higher seeds big a first-round location game. With Miami's loss to Louisville connected Friday night, the Hurricanes' chances of earning a bye dropped significantly, but the anticipation of hosting a location crippled increased.

Miami provided a connection to ESPN connected Sunday astir the ongoing conversations.

"Hard Rock Stadium developed an operational program should the stadium big some a LaLiga crippled and a University of Miami CFP first-round crippled the play of December 19th and 20th," the schoolhouse said. "We volition proceed to refine and reappraisal the program and yet conscionable the needs and objectives of the CFP pending last scheduling of some events."

With the shot crippled scheduled for 10 a.m. ET, the Hurricanes could big the CFP crippled astatine Hard Rock Stadium aboriginal that night. The crippled besides could determination to a antithetic day, but some of those options would necessitate immoderate assistance from ESPN to find a model that works.

The CFP absorption committee, which is composed of the10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame diversion manager Pete Bevacqua, has to o.k. the last plan, but that's not expected for a fewer weeks.

CFP officials are expecting Miami to supply them with an alternate determination this week, and sources told ESPN the assemblage is considering Orlando, Florida -- but that would beryllium the worst-case scenario.

There are inactive much questions than answers. LaLiga players person precocious protested the league's determination to clasp a regular-season crippled successful Miami, and, of course, the Hurricanes person yet to marque the playoff.

This isn't the archetypal clip a schoolhouse has had to travel up with a playoff contingency plan. In 2024, the archetypal twelvemonth of the 12-team field, Kansas diversion manager Travis Goff said that if the Jayhawks earned a first-round location game, it would person to beryllium played astatine Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium due to the fact that of operation astatine the school's on-campus stadium.