If we get the chance to go in the playoff, we’re gonna make the most of it. We don’t care if we’re a top-eight seed or we’re the 12th seed. In the playoffs, it’s anybody’s chance. We just hope we can get a shot.

The ‘Canes’ College Football Playoff hopes also may have been dashed in the shootout, in which the teams combined for more than 980 yards and 51 first downs.

The Hurricanes had a chance to score the game-tying touchdown in the game’s final minutes, but an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty backed them up.