Carson Beck explains why this season with Miami was best year of his life

Carson Beck finished the 2025 season on about as low of a note as possible.

His Miami Hurricanes had the ball and time left to make a drive to beat the Indiana Hoosiers in the College Football Playoff National Championship.

Beck drove the 'Canes down the field, and it looked like they at least had a chance to take a few shots at the end zone. He misjudged the coverage on a deep shot that could have won Miami the game with 44 seconds to go, and that ball was intercepted by Indiana cornerback Jamari Sharpe.

That throw sealed the win for Indiana, and as the confetti fell on Curt Cignetti and his team, the camera found a despondent Beck walking back to the locker room with his helmet still on.

It could have been the worst moment of the veteran college quarterback's life, but after the game, Beck expressed gratitude for everything he experienced in this past season with Miami.

In fact, he was asked if this was the best year of his life.

“Yeah, it was,” Carson Beck said, according to the Associated Press (h/t NBC Sports). “And not because we made the national championship, not because won a bunch of football games or we made great plays or things of that sort. Man, for me, my whole entire life changed.”

Carson Beck happy with who he became with Miami Hurricanes 

Beck relayed that he was in a "really dark place" a year ago, and he was "trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel."

He spent the first five seasons of his college career at Georgia, where he won national championships as a backup to Stetson Bennett and eventually became the starter for two seasons.

However, Beck suffered a season-ending UCL injury in his right elbow during the 2024 SEC Championship Game that required surgery and caused him to miss last season's College Football Playoff.

He was injured, and the Bulldogs appeared to be ready to move on to Gunner Stockton. 

It certainly was a low point for Beck, but he transferred to Miami, got a good chunk of NIL cash and was put in a position to lead a program that felt it had the goods to win it all and was just looking for a quarterback to replace Cam Ward.

The rest, as they say, was history, and the fact that it ended in a heartbreaking interception doesn't take away all the success Beck had at Miami this past season.

Beck's next move will take him to the 2026 NFL Draft, where he'll likely be a mid-round pick. One gets the sense that no matter what happens from here on out, though, he's content with who he became with the Hurricanes.

“I really couldn’t have done it without all these people around me,” Beck said. “This university truly saved me and helped me rebuild into the man that I am today.”