MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyler Van Dyke extra than obtained again on track. It nevertheless wasn’t sufficient for Miami to knock off Drake Maye and North Carolina.
Maye handed for 309 yards and two touchdowns, a single of them a 74-yarder to J.J. Jones, as North Carolina overcame a substantial hard work by Van Dyke to conquer Miami 27-24 on Saturday and transfer atop the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Coastal Division.
Josh Downs had a obtaining landing and Omarion Hampton ran for a further rating for North Carolina (5-1, 2- ACC).
“It’s incredible how tough youthful folks fight to earn a football video game,” North Carolina coach Mack Brown stated. “I’ve usually stated, whoever helps make scoreboards is just not good. Miami did not drop the match. They just ran out of time.”
Van Dyke completed 42 of 57 passes for 496 yards — the 2nd-most in Miami heritage, powering Stephen Morris’ 566 in 2012 — and 3 touchdowns for Miami (2-3, -1).
Key’Shawn Smith, Henry Parrish and Colbie Younger experienced the touchdown receptions for the Hurricanes, who scored 10 factors in the final 28 seconds of the initial half to get within 21-17. Will Mallory had 8 catches for 115 yards for Miami.
“We’re all about the get the job done and the lumps that come with it and it stinks and it is agonizing to deal with,” Miami coach Mario Cristobal stated. “But you know what? Which is what we’re in this article for, and gladly prepared for regardless of what arrives with it to make positive we get it back to a certain stage. And that is what we’re going to do.”
It ended up as Miami’s third straight decline, and the very first time since 2007 that the Hurricanes have absent 3 consecutive games without at any time keeping a direct.
It didn’t deficiency for late-video game drama.
Down 27-24, Miami at first appeared to recover an onside kick with about 2 minutes remaining Al Blades Jr. dove along the sideline to knock the ball inbounds and the Hurricanes seemed poised to acquire over. The participate in was overturned by replay, which saw that Blades experienced stepped out of bounds and hence couldn’t contact the ball.
North Carolina punted the ball again to Miami with 1:14 remaining, but Van Dyke was picked off with 8 seconds remaining.
“How about that protection? They made some big performs,” Maye claimed.
Caleb Hood rushed for 74 yards on 13 carries for the Tar Heels, who have received 4 straight above Miami for the 1st time. Jones’ way-also-quick rating capped a match-opening 95-yard drive, and Hampton’s rating concluded off a 99-property push that was bolstered by a 52-lawn pass from Maye to Antoine Eco-friendly.
Miami struggled to run the ball — 41 yards on 23 carries — but not changing on a few vital prospects was even even worse.
The Hurricanes had 1st-and-purpose from the North Carolina 2 in the next quarter, received a single garden on 3 carries and then observed Van Dyke’s fourth-down heave slide incomplete. In the third quarter, after intercepting Maye for the second time the Hurricanes’ push stalled near midfield right after going for it on fourth down. And in the fourth quarter, Jaylan Knighton obtained sufficient yards to convert on fourth-and-1 at the North Carolina 26 — but fumbled the ball absent.
“Critical faults usually inform the tale of a match like this,” Cristobal explained.
The Heels went 81 yards in 17 performs, and Noah Burnette’s chip-shot discipline target place North Carolina up 27-17 with 4:10 remaining. Van Dyke found Youthful from 16 yards out to get Miami a industry purpose with 2:20 remaining, but the Hurricanes acquired no closer.
“We’re headed in the appropriate course,” Van Dyke reported. “I think that. I really do.”
THE TAKEAWAY
North Carolina: It was the very first time that North Carolina had two landing drives of at least 95 yards in the same activity considering the fact that Aug. 31, 2019. That working day, the Tar Heels experienced them — a 95- and 98-yarder, to be particular — in a 6:01 span of the fourth quarter on the way to rallying earlier South Carolina 24-20.
Miami: The Hurricanes are 2-3 for the next consecutive calendar year the final time that happened in back again-to-back several years was 1978 and 1979.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
At 2- in the ACC and 5-1 all round, North Carolina will probably get on the radar of much more AP Prime 25 voters. But receiving into the poll on Sunday could be rough the Tar Heels had just the 37th-most poll factors this week, and appeared on only two ballots.
UP Next
North Carolina: Take a look at Duke on Oct. 15.
Miami: Go to Virginia Tech on Oct. 15.
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