Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal gets D+ grade from ESPN for disappointing start

The Hurricanes snapped their three-game losing streak with a win over Virginia Tech last weekend, but that wasn’t enough to change one ESPN national college football writer’s impression of Mario Cristobal’s start with Miami.

ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg awarded each first-year college football coach a midseason grade for their first six games, and he gave Cristobal a D+ mark.

“The product on the field hasn’t looked much different so far in the Cristobal era,” Rittenberg wrote. “After opening with 70 points against Bethune-Cookman, the Canes have averaged just 23.4 points against five FBS opponents, losing to three of them. Two of their losses came by a single score — Texas A&M (road) and North…