When quarterback Carson Beck transferred from the Georgia to Miami, he wasn’t just leaving behind a SEC dynasty—he was leaving one temple of college sports and stepping into another.
Since his transfer, Beck has seen two very different sides of the college football landscape.
In the SEC, Saturdays are treated like a pilgrimage: war chants as prayer, head coaches as mythological figureheads, stadiums as cathedrals. The entire ecosystem is built on tradition, lineage, and reverence for what—and who—came before.
But unlike football in the south, Miami football is less about reverence and more about spectacle. While SEC football demands reverence of the past, Miami football thrives on disrupting the future.