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The 2025 College Football Playoff first round continues with No. 10 Miami taking on No. 7 Texas A&M. The winner will advance to face No. 2 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Eve.
The score is tied 3-3 in the fourth quarter. Follow for live play-by-play updates and analysis from The Athletic’s college football staff.
Q4 8:03 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
Texas A&M goes back to the tight end screen, and it falls incomplete. Here comes Randy Bond to attempt a 35-yard field goal… and he drills it. We are tied at 3!
Q4 9:28 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
Marcel Reed is sacked for the fifth time today, and none bigger than that one from Akheem Mesidor!
Miami defensive tackle Ahmad Moten the latest Hurricanes starter to exit with injury. He walked off the field under his own power and headed for the lockerroom. The Hurricanes have held Texas A&M to 71 rushing yards on 27 attempts until this point with 9:44 remaining in the fourth quarter. Moten has been a big part of it.
Q4 9:44 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
Marcel Reed hits Mario Craver in stride. First down inside the Miami 20.
Q4 10:11 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
The ruling on the field is upheld. First-and-10 Aggies at Miami’s 31-yard line.
You can invest hundreds of millions in facilities, tens of millions on coaches salaries and NIL, and your program's fate still comes down to a kicker missing a 22-yard FG or a bad fake punt throw.
Q4 10:11 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
The completion to KC Concepcion gets called back as expected, but Marcel Reed finds Ashton Bethel-Roman for just enough yardage for a first down!
It looks like Bethel-Roman got to the line to gain, but the play is under review.
Texas A&M has to score at some point.
Starting 11-0, getting knocked out of the SEC title game by your biggest rival and then getting shut out at home in the Playoff is an ending to a season almost too bleak for words.
Q4 10:38 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
The Aggies get another first down, this one courtesy of an offside on Miami. Marcel Reed then scrambles and hits KC Concepcion downfield to get to the Miami 20, but it was a low throw, so we’ll see if Concepcion comes down with it. It looks like he didn’t.
Q4 12:15 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
The Aggies convert on third down again, as Mario Craver fights through contact on a screen to get just enough yardage. Texas A&M is now near midfield.
Q4 13:15 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
Two nice-looking passes from Marcel Reed to Ashton Bethel-Roman give Texas A&M a huge first down after being backed up against its own goal line on a second-and-18 following the sack. But a long way to go before the Aggies can threaten to score.
Per TruMedia, this is the third game this season to be 3-0 after three quarters:
Mario Cristobal has grown more aggressive over the years on the punt/go-for-it situations. I wonder if that decision to punt will come back to haunt him. Yes, I know how well Miami's defense has been playing, but that felt like a situation where the numbers probably would have justified going for it.
Q4 15:00 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
Reuben Bain greets Marcel Reed with a sack! Biggest play of the day from the star Miami edge rusher.
One quarter left for the Aggies to try to get their offense going.
Q3 0:33 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
In a truly shocking turn of events, Miami’s drive stalled out at midfield, and Texas A&M will get the ball back after a punt.
Mark Fletcher Jr. sighting = 13 yards and a first down.
Per Stathead, Texas A&M hasn't …
Just over a quarter left to get on the board!
In a game full of punts, I'm surprised how much Texas A&M is still willing to kick at the Malachi Toney. He already took one 55 yards and Texas A&M just gave him another chance at a return. Fortunately for the Aggies they were set up better there, but considering how bad the offenses have been, kicking out of bounds might be a better bet going forward. All it takes is one more punt return to put this game out of reach.
Q3 3:40 – Miami 3, Texas A&M 0
Miami may have gotten away with an unnecessary roughness there. Instead of a 15-yard penalty and first down across midfield, it’s third-and-4, and Marcel Reed is flushed out of the pocket and throws one incomplete.
