Riding to a Miami game with Linda Fletcher

It is 9 a.m. on another humid day in Florida, and Betty still has her sleeping mask on. She has a big day ahead, one that will keep her awake past 1 in the morning. Rest is key on a travel day like today.

"Don't mind her mask," Linda Fletcher says, pointing at the covered windshield. Betty, Fletcher's RV, has taken her across the country, to the West Coast, up the East Coast, and, this weekend, will take her to South Bend, Indiana, for No. 1 Miami's Saturday game at No. 11 Notre Dame.

Fletcher has driven nearly 60,000 miles over the past four years to watch each and every game her son, Miami running back Mark Fletcher Jr., has played in college. She drew national attention last year when…