Miami has had a consistent issue crop up this season: penalties.

The No. 18 Hurricanes are one of the most penalized teams in the nation, averaging eight per game. Against SMU on Saturday, it proved costly in a 26-20 overtime loss.

“We felt that we had made progress the previous week against Stanford, but we regressed Saturday,” Miami coach Mario Cristobal said on WQAM. “There’s no other way to cut it. In between the whistles, the play was really good, really physical. But the pre-snap penalties were certainly hurtful, and I know we had a couple of holdings, as well. So that part certainly it’s … not our standard and certainly something that we have to fix and get better.”

Some of the penalties were controversial, such as Marquise Lightfoot’s fourth-down roughing-the-passer call t

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