No. 10 Miami (Fla.) Digs in Late, Tops No. 6 Notre Dame in 27-24 Thriller

Carter Davis made a 47-yard subject purpose with 1:04 left for the go-ahead rating, Carson Beck threw for 205 yards and two touchdowns in his Miami debut, and the Tenth-ranked Hurricanes beat No. 6 Notre Dame, 27-24, within the opener for each groups on Sunday night time.

CJ Daniels made a spectacular one-handed landing seize and Rueben Bain had an interception on a thrice-deflected cross within the fourth quarter for the Hurricanes, who outgained Notre Dame 324 yards to 314. Malachi Toney had a landing catch and Marty Brown added a landing run for Miami.

CJ Carr, in his first begin for Notre Dame, completed 19 of 30 for 221 yards with two landing passes and an interception — plus a dashing rating with 3:21 left that tied the sport, capping a rally from 14 factors down. Micah Gilbert and Jordan Faison had the scoring grabs for the Irish.

Miami went 46 yards on 10 performs on the following drive, with Davis — a switch from FAU — delivering for the lead. Notre Dame acquired the ball at its personal 25, out of timeouts, and went nowhere earlier than time expired.

“Within the face of adversity, we acquired it completed once we wanted to,” Beck stated.

Miami gained the coin toss and deferred — which proved related, for the reason that Hurricanes basically ran out the clock on the primary half with a 75-yard landing drive — then began the second half with one other 75-yard landing march.

Carr’s first collegiate landing cross got here on a play the place he dropped again, zigging and zagging to keep away from stress, then ran again towards the road earlier than discovering Gilbert for what grew to become a fairly straightforward rating that tied the sport at 7-7.

Almost an hour handed in actual time earlier than Carr threw one other ball, as Miami basically had back-to-back possessions separated solely by an Irish kneel-down to finish the half.

Daniels’ 20-yard seize got here with 12 seconds left earlier than halftime to offer Miami a 14-7 lead, and the Hurricanes chewed up half of the third-quarter clock on one other 75-yard drive capped by Brown’s 5-yard run.

The takeaway

Notre Dame: The Irish grew to become the fourth staff that was ranked within the prime eight of the preseason AP High 25 to lose this weekend, after No. 1 Texas (to No. 3 Ohio State), No. 4 Clemson (to No. 9 LSU) and No. 8 Alabama (to Florida State). They’ve now misplaced seven consecutive highway video games towards the Hurricanes since 1977.

Miami: Beck is the seventh consecutive quarterback to win his Miami beginning debut, following D’Eriq King, Tyler Van Dyke, Jake Garcia, Jacurri Brown, Emory Williams and Cam Ward. Anticipate Miami to achieve a number of spots within the AP High 25.

Up subsequent

Notre Dame: Hosts Texas A&M on Sept. 13.

Miami: Hosts Bethune-Cookman on Saturday.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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