Coach Al Golden of the Miami Hurricanes was fired as coach of the Miami Hurricanes. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)Each week Chuck Culpepper curates the top story lines of the college football world, presenting a one-of-a-kind take on the sport’s hot topics. The countdown begins … 25. THE 2001-02 BCS TITLE GAME AT THE ROSE BOWL. How did this forgettable, forgotten rout end up ranked here in 2015? It’s worth noting that its contestants were Miami (Fla.), which just lost 58-0 to Clemson last weekend, reached a program-historic nadir and fired its coach on Sunday; and Nebraska, which just took a fifth pre-November loss, by 13 points total (including an overtime loss at Miami in September), after firing its coach last December. After enough years, and most everyone gets comeuppance. 24. THE NUMERAL 58. It once signaled upheaval, with Miami as the fresh mastodon and Notre Dame as ex-relevant, when Jimmy Johnson’s Miami beat Notre Dame historically, 58-7, in 1985, whereupon Notre Dame fired Gerry Faust and hired Lou Holtz. Now the five-time national champion Miami falls to Clemson 58-0, and its football alumni go apoplectic. Sit around enough decades, and most everyone . …
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