Last season the Miami Hurricanes failed to make a college football bowl game.  First year coach, Randy Shannon was forgiven by fans, but it better not happen again this season.  There is a lot of work to be done for the Hurricanes this year, as they only return 4 starters on offense and 4 on defense.  The bright side is that recruiting has been excellent and Miami will look to have a great season in the college football ACC division.  Currently college football oddsmakers at SportBetting.com have the Miami Hurricanes at +350 odds to win the 2008 ACC this year.

The big strength for the Hurricanes this season is all the fresh talent that they went out and got.  Miami is said to be the top 5 teams in the college football recruiting class.  Many of the freshmen had plenty of time to adjust to the team and they will look to make big impacts this upcoming year.  Usually depending on freshman is not a good idea, but other players will return to anchor the team.  The Hurricanes will return linebackers Sean Spence and Arthur Brown, as well as defensive tackle Marcus Forston.  Miami will also rely on a couple of quality running backs to carry the team in Graig Cooper and Javarris James.  They produced most of the Miami offense last year and will look to be even more productive this season.  Right now the Miami Hurricanes are listed at 35:1 odds at SportsBetting.com to win the BCS National Championship.

The rest of the Miami offense did rather poorly and will need to replace several players.  Freshman quarterback Robert Marve has looked very impressive, but is battling with Jacory Harris for the job.  Either way it may be a problem as both QB’s are very inexperienced.  The loss of wide receiver Darnall Jenkins and Lance Leggett will not help either.  Miami was ranked last in the conference in 2007 is passing offense, which has been a big problem for them.  It is going to be interesting to see how the Miami Hurricanes will adjust this year, but I expect them to surprise a lot of teams.

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