The Miami Hurricanes have a chance to end Manny Diaz's miserable first season in charge with an Independence Bowl victory over the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
The 6-6 ACC side has to overcome a home-field advantage of sorts for the Conference USA squad located an hour away from Shreveport, Louisiana, as well as plenty of key absences, to end a two-game losing streak and a brutal run of eight defeats in its last nine postseason contests.
Louisiana Tech has won nine games in four of the last six years under Skip Holtz, and if it defeats the Hurricanes, it would earn the program's first-ever 10-win campaign.