Johnny Manziel: Miami can still win ACC, but plays with 'recipe for disaster'

Former Heisman winner Johnny Manziel is still buying stock in Miami to win the ACC and make the College Football Playoff.

However, playing dangerously finally caught up to the Hurricanes in an upset loss to Georgia Tech. Mario Cristobal already acknowledged as much and is ready to move on.

They couldn’t get away with it this past weekend so will it happen again? There’s a good chance unless Miami gets right fast.

“I think it was a good time to buy them to win the ACC,” Manziel said via Action Network. “I think they’re still gonna continue to go on and be able to do that. I just think with this team, you’ve seen a pattern throughout the season. It’s just how many times are they gonna get away with this in these close games?

“It could have happened earlier in the season at Virginia Tech. It could have happened multiple times, and it’s a little bit of a pattern, of what they’ve been as a team. They’re not a team that gets out on you early, who stomps on your throat and puts you down. It’s like they come alive whenever they’re down 7 points and have to come back, and that’s just a recipe for disaster.”

Miami might be able to get away with that now, but when it comes to a championship game or a playoff game, things can change in a hurry.

“You’re gonna run into a team in the College Football Playoff who’s not gonna let up, and you’re not gonna be able to come back from the deficit,” Manziel said. “They have some things to definitely work on over the next couple weeks. But what they want to do in the ACC, it’s still getting themselves into a nice position in the playoff. It’s still all very much in front of them.”

Cristobal was honest with himself and his Miami players. They simply have to turn the page.“The reality of it,” Cristobal said. “Got to own it. Got to own every bit of it, all of us. In this profession, when you take one on the chin like that, you’ve got to be a grown man, you got to own it. There’s no finger pointing, there’s no — and by that, I mean starting of course with myself and every coach on the staff and every player, you just own it. And you don’t talk about it very much, you could just go do something about it.”