2025 Miami Football Win Totals: Odds released for big season under Mario Cristobal

The ‘U is coming off one of its two best seasons by record in just over two decades, even if it didn’t make the ACC Championship or the College Football Playoff. Now, Vegas is expecting the Hurricanes to post a third record that’s similar to those in 2025.

Per the latest win totals at FanDuel, Miami has one set at 8.5 wins. The over at nine wins or more is the side that’s favored at (-188).

Miami is in a tie for the second-highest win total in the Atlantic Coast Conference. It’s behind only Clemson at 9.5 wins while the total of 8.5 is the same as Louisville and SMU.

The Hurricanes went 10-3 (6-2) overall in 2024 for their best record so far through three seasons under Mario Cristobal. It tied their best record since going 10-3 (7-1) back in 2017, with those being their two best records since winning 11 or 12 games in every season at the turn of the century from 2000 to 2003.

However, while winning double-digit games behind the highest-scoring offense in the country, it was a bit of a disappointment by year’s end, losing three of their final four after starting at 9-0. Losing a pair of road games at Georgia Tech and at Syracuse, allowing a 42-17 run to the Orange to close in the finale, cost Miami a spot in the ACC Championship and, with that, the CFP. With no titles to win, the Hurricanes would play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, which they also lost to Iowa State.

Now, Miami has had to rest the roster over this offseason. That’s most recently with seven players being selected in the 2025 NFL Draft, namely QB Cam Ward at No. 1 overall.

The Hurricanes have brought in a Top 10 portal class that includes QB Carson Beck (Georgia), the No. 1 transfer this offseason, along with several other names among the 19 additions that could or should be starters this fall in Coral Gables. They’ll now try to keep the offense at least close to where it was a season ago while improving the defense after it cost them in ways as last year went.

A lot has changed at Miami after going 10-3 in 2024. How well they do following that up in 2025 now, whether over or under that number at 8.5, will come down to how those changes to the roster go on both sides of the ball over this season in South Beach.