No. 7 Miami (Fla.) was set to host Florida A&M on Thursday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., with kickoff scheduled for 8 p.m. ET and the Hurricanes laying 59.5 points in the latest odds. The over/under sat at 66.5, the highest total of any Week 2 college football game mentioned in the source.
That kind of number is why Miami Hurricanes fans and bettors are paying attention now. Tom Fornelli had returned $615 to $100 players and was 8-2 over his past 10 Miami picks, but he was still leaning Under on the total, a note that fits a game in which one side is being asked to win by almost 60 points and the total still climbed to 66.5. Miami arrived 1-0 after a blowout of Stanford in its ACC opener, while Florida A&M came in at 1-1 after a 31-13 loss to South Carolina State on Sunday in the Orange Blossom Classic.
The matchup also carried a strange historical edge. Miami leads the all-time series 11-1 and had won 11 straight meetings since Florida A&M beat it 16-13 in 1979, which helps explain why a line this wide did not look as out of place as it might in another series. Miami finished second in the ACC at 6-2 and 13-3 overall in 2025, then lost to Indiana 27-21 in the national championship game, so the expectation entering this one was not subtle: the Hurricanes were supposed to control everything, from field position to tempo to the scoreboard.
That leaves the real question on Thursday night: whether Miami can turn a lopsided spread into a clean cover without dragging the total up with it. If the favorite handles business the way its record and ranking suggest, the betting angle is straight enough. If it does not, the number that looked extreme before kickoff will feel even larger when the game is over.
