Orange Bowl Boys: A Miami Hurricanes Podcast

We are still coming in hot off that big victory over Notre Dame, and we are thrilled to see the way the defense played against a really tough offense... and Toast is getting cautiously more optimistic. Plus Scoop is finally starting to come around on the wide receivers room, especially after he was bullied by Andrew Novak for not having faith in those guys. And everyone has praise for the overall play of the defense and how that co...

It was a HUGE Week 1 win for the Miami Hurricanes in a straight-up fist fight with Notre Dame. And while we struggled in the fourth quarter, the defense came up big when it counted most and the kicking game delivered. So we start by recognizing Carter Davis who hit a HUGE kick to take the lead late in the fourth quarter, after we spent the week a little afraid of what the kicking game was going to look like. What an ending!

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We are ready!! It's officially FOOTBALL SEASON as Miami kicks off the 2025 season against Notre Dame this Sunday night and everyone on the show is hyped for this one. The narrative seems to be all about the history of this matchup and Miami never being able to fill the Rock, but we all feel like this one is going to deliver in a huge way for the Canes. But we aren't sleeping on Notre Dame, because Jeremiyah Love and the coa...

We have to open this week's show by addressing the Notre Dame fan base coming for the OBB's this week and how hostile the fan base got over our critique of their program going into the Week 1 showdown. And as we recap the back-and-forths this week, our old friend IP Daley joins the show to drop bombs on the Irish faithful after an eventful week online.

Plus we go through the 2025 Miami Hurricanes schedule and do the win-...

We have officially abandoned the Chapters under the individual head coaches and welcome the fan base to Episode 389 of the Orange Bowl Boys! Roman wore an offensive shirt out in public today which brings about a funny conversation about offensive things we see out in the world. And with the Canes officially in pads we head on down to Greentree, where we jump into the CBS prediction that Miami will lose in Week 1 to Notre Dame. Plus...

Toast's nephew is officially on campus at UM getting ready to play baseball for the Canes, Roman's daughter is his hero, and Metallica's potential residency at the Vegas sphere has us all pumped up for this week's show. And as camp officially opens down in Coral Gables, Mario appears to be more calm and relaxed going into the season, a different vibe from the last few seasons. Scoop is big on Carson Beck as he's...

No chapter number from Toast, Roman has a new favorite whiskey and Scoop hasn't eaten... we get off to a strong start this week as everyone is a bit out of sorts. And we were all pleasantly surprised by Happy Gilmore 2, especially due to the great cameos and all the hilarious appearances by our favorite golfers. Plus we quickly get down to Greentree with news of Carson Beck making the Maxwell watch list, and how confident Roman...

We open the show with the slew of celebrity deaths that landed on us this week, but none harder than the passing of Hulk Hogan, who was a global icon on one of the biggest levels. Of course everyone was bummed about Ozzy's passing, and the tragedy around Malcom Jamal Warner, as our childhood quickly died off this week. 

But we pivot to Miami at ACC Media Days, with great audio from Mark Richt sitting down with Carson, and Ca...

It's stories from Roman's cruise, and how Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" got stuck in Toast's head, as we get into this week's show - where everyone is finally back! And crazy enough we are only six weeks away from our first game against Notre Dame, which means Student of the Game is also just around the corner. The common denominator when evaluating Miami in 2025 seems to be consistently coming back to Carso...

How we start the show with a conversation about "scrotox" is beyond any of us but sure enough that's where things begin this week. But we quickly get down to Greentree and Toast jumps right into the EA College Football 26 rankings for the key players across the roster. And as we really look at the numbers, it's amazing how far off-base some of the EA evaluations are, especially on offense. Plus everyone has a good l...

We kick off the show with Scoop's new Bange hat - even though he hates where the font is located on the hat and immediately bails on it at the start of the show. And as we get down to Greentree, we jump into Athlon's rankings with Miami at #10, and Texas (with a hype man of Paul Finebaum) coming in at #1.

Scoop is also still concerned about the wide receivers and hopes that the tight ends step up to the challenge and Lof...

We are all finally back from vacations and the crew is back together for the first time in a month! Scoop immediately has stories to share from his trip to Paris, including how kind the French were in comparison to the people in South Florida. He also offers up his opinion that French cuisine, while it is held in such high regard, is actually really awful.

As we get down to Greentree, Scoop catches up with some of the topics of ...

Roman is back! But Scoop is gone this week... so it seems like the show is never going to be back together until Fall! And Roman shares a story about his father informing him while in Italy that they have a famous relative who turned out to be a high level mafia boss. And as we get down to Greentree, we have to apologize for not mentioning the baseball super-regionals once last week, after they turned around a bad start to make a b...

We are joined this week by PGA winning golfer Andrew Novak who lodged his first PGA win and is gearing up for the US Open next weekend in Pennsylvania! He is filling in for Ro this week and immediately jumped into his 2nd place finish at the Heritage (and what happened on the putt that lost him the playoff with Justin Thomas) and a bit about his new podcast, Screenplay, which is all NFL.

ESPN's Power Index opened with Miami ...

Roman is off the show this week so of course we are all over the road - from Toast trying Raising Canes for the first time, the Whataburger craze and just how much you can do with a chicken tender. Plus some props out of the gate to the Florida Panthers who are returning to the Stanley Cup Finals for the third straight year!

As we get down to Greentree, we start with Athlon Sports citing "anonymous" ACC coaches taking sh...

We open with congratulations to American Heritage for winning the 4A state baseball title this week. Everyone also loves the new Orange Bowl Babies that debuted on social media this week, even though they got Scoop in trouble with his wife. 

As we get down to Greentree, everyone has thoughts about David Pollack saying he wouldn't spend $2 million on an Offensive Lineman, which Roman feels is a "homer" take because Ge...

Everyone opens with good energy as Miami lands the #1 prospect in the country, Jackson Cantwell... even though his overall rating continues to drop now that he's a Cane. And while no one is surprised that outlets like 247 continue to drop him in the rankings, it's maddening that the narrative around Miami is so different than other schools. Toast, however, is unapologetic for being "the Yankees" of college football....

Right out of the gate, we're on to the new Pop Tart ice cream sandwiches that are hitting store shelves, and we'll let you guess who the one guy is that's not into it. That also spins us into a debate about the make-up of "ice cream" Drumsticks that don't melt, and how AI is on the brink of translating what our pets think.

When we get down to Greentree, we actually start with Miami Baseball who has been o...

Scoop is still recovering from a trip to Arizona which has his clock off by three hours, as we start a sexy episode 169. We quickly get down to Greentree where we dive into the lack of coverage around Cam Ward going #1 overall, and how jilted the ESPN coverage was toward Shedeur Sanders not getting drafted. Everyone on the show is fired up about how bad the coverage was, calling ESPN an embarrassment for the way it was handled!