CORAL GABLES, Fla. — They celebrated on the field. They celebrated in the locker room. And when the University of Miami football team’s overnight charter flight landed Sunday after its biggest comeback win in a quarter-century, another unplanned celebration was waiting.
Fire trucks greeted the plane by shooting plumes of water over it as it taxied to the gate.
“I couldn’t believe it when I saw that,” Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal said. “That was crazy.”
A little bit of crazy on Sunday morning made sense, because everything about Saturday night at California was pretty much crazy as well.
The Hurricanes trailed by 25 points late in the third quarter, trailed by 20 with 11 minutes remaining, and yet somehow beat Cal 39-38, posting the biggest comeback win in Football Bowl Subdivision play this season and the biggest by Miami since a 28-point comeback to beat Boston College in 1999.