Miami coach Mario Cristobal wrestles out of hug after Carson Beck's touchdown in viral moment

No. 10 Miami is headed to the nationalist championship, but Mario Cristobal wanted to marque definite his guys were not celebrating early.

The Hurricanes took the pb with 18 seconds near aft Carson Beck scrambled for a people arsenic the near broadside of the tract was near wide open.

After taking the 27-24 lead, an adjunct went up to the caput manager and hugged him from down portion smiling from receptor to ear.

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Head manager Mario Cristobal of the Miami Hurricanes looks connected successful the 4th fourth against the Ole Miss Rebels during the College Football Playoff Semifinal astatine the VRBO Fiesta Bowl astatine State Farm Stadium connected Jan. 8, 2026 successful Glendale, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Cristobal, though, was not having it.

Almost immediately, Cristobal wrestled himself retired of the hug and snapped astatine the coach, possibly knowing that thing could hap fixed the magnitude of scoring that had already occurred successful the 4th quarter.

Miami caput manager Mario Cristobal gestures towards the fans aft defeating Virginia Tech successful an NCAA assemblage shot game, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, successful Blacksburg, Virginia. (AP Photo/Robert Simmons)

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Twenty-five of the game's 51 points were scored successful the last 7 minutes, which featured 4 pb changes. Ole Miss took a pb with a tract goal, but Miami responded with a 36-yard touchdown by Malachi Toney to pb 24-19. Minutes later, the Rebels scored a touchdown and two-point conversion to spell up 27-24.

It was up to Beck and the Miami discourtesy to support the crippled alive. Beck marched down the field, and fittingly, Beck, scanning the field, recovered a seam to his near and sprinted for the colored overgarment to people the game-winner with 18 seconds left. This led to the hug that Cristobal wanted nary portion of.

Things got fascinating astatine the end, with Ole Miss going 40 yards successful conscionable a fewer seconds to acceptable up a Hail Mary for the win. Chambliss had abstraction to loft a walk to the extremity zone, and though it deed disconnected the manus of a teammate, it landed incomplete for the Miami victory.

In each likelihood, Cristobal and the adjunct manager shared a agelong clasp arsenic the Hurricanes celebrated.

Carson Beck of the Miami Hurricanes passes the shot against the Ole Miss Rebels successful the archetypal 4th during the 2025 College Football Playoff Semifinal astatine the VRBO Fiesta Bowl astatine State Farm Stadium connected Jan. 8, 2026 successful Glendale, Arizona.   (Chris Coduto/Getty Images)

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Miami volition look Friday's victor of No. 1 Indiana and No. 5 Oregon successful the nationalist rubric crippled connected Jan. 19, which volition beryllium played astatine its precise ain Hard Rock Stadium successful South Florida.

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