Carson Beck trolls SEC on social media after Miami’s win over Ole Miss
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Carson Beck didn’t just ruin Ole Miss‘s national championship dreams in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Thursday night.
The Miami quarterback had a flair for the dramatic with his game-winning touchdown run in the final seconds of the Fiesta Bowl, lifting the Hurricanes to a 31-27 victory and a spot in the national title game. Then the signal-caller who used to play for Georgia showed he wasn’t totally removed from the SEC scene.
Beck let the huge victory over one of his former SEC rivals fully sink in, went to his social media and quoted the conference’s catchphrase in a dig that had to add insult to injury for Rebels fans — and just maybe the Bulldogs fans who used to cheer for him in Athens.
“It just means more,” wrote Beck on Instagram, showing he recalls exactly the conference he came to Miami from and that, well, the win in the desert really did mean that much to him and his current program.
The SEC slogan that Beck didn’t forget made its debut in 2016, so it’s been a part of the conference’s culture for a decade now. The slogan perfectly captures the passion that exists among the league’s teams and its fans, but this move by Beck probably wasn’t what Ole Miss fans or fans of the conference were planning on reading in the aftermath of Thursday night’s game.
Now, of course, Beck and his new program will play in a game that means even more than the one they just pulled off, and that’s the national title game in Beck’s new home stadium in Miami on Jan. 19 against Indiana. Should Beck and the Canes pull off the upset that night, who knows what he’ll have cooked up on social media in the aftermath.
SEC fans should beware.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
