8 notable stats from Miami Hurricanes’ win over USF Bulls to improve to 3-0
The fifth-ranked Miami Hurricanes defeated the No. 18 USF Bulls 49-12 on Saturday to improve to 3-0 on the season, including a pair of wins over ranked opponents.
Here are eight notable stats from the game.
1993: Prior to this season, the last time Miami started a season 3-0 with at least two ranked wins in those first three games was the 1993 season. The Hurricanes opened with wins over then-No. 20 Boston College, unranked Virginia Tech and then-No. 13 Colorado. UM went 9-3 that season.
37: Miami’s 37-point margin of victory was its largest over a ranked opponent since beating Washington 65-7 in 2001, the most recent of the Hurricanes’ five national championship seasons.
300+ passing yards, 3 passing TDs, 1 rushing TD: Carson Beck on Saturday completed 23 of 28 passes for 340 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a fourth touchdown.
He is the fourth Hurricanes quarterback over the past decade to throw for at least 300 yards and three touchdowns and run for at least one touchdown in the same game. Cam Ward did it twice in 2014. Malik Rosier did it once in 2017. And Brad Kaaya did it once in 2016. Beck’s outing, however, was the only one that came against a ranked opponent.
100+ rushing yards, two rushing TDs: Running back Mark Fletcher Jr. finished with a game-high 120 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries.
It’s the second time in the junior’s UM career that he has run for at least 100 yards and two touchdowns against a ranked opponent, also doing so on Nov. 18, 2023, as a freshman in Miami’s loss to then-No. 9 Louisville. The most recent Hurricanes player to accomplish the feat prior to Fletcher? The late Tyrone Moss back in 2005.
2 receiving TDs: True freshman Josh Moore hauled in a pair of first-quarter touchdown catches on Saturday.
He is the first UM true freshman with multiple TD catches in a game since Larry Hodges on Sept. 14, 2019, against Bethune-Cookman. The last time a Hurricanes true freshman accomplished the feat against an FBS opponent? Stacy Coley, who did it twice in 2013 against Pittsburgh and ... USF.
2: The Hurricanes held USF dual-threat quarterback Byrum Brown to just 2 rushing yards on 13 carries. That number also includes 16 yards lost on a pair of sacks, but even with those removed his rushing total would still be just 18 yards on 11 carries for a meager 1.6 yards per carry.
Beck, meanwhile, had 28 rushing yards on six carries. Heck, even Emory Williams had a 10 yard carry in the fourth quarter during the one drive when UM put its second-string offense in to wrap up the game.
2: For a third consecutive game, the Hurricanes defense forced a pair of turnovers. This time it was on a Bryce Fitzgerald interception (his second of the season) and a Chase Smith fumble recovery.
7: The Hurricanes logged seven pass breakups on Saturday against USF. Sophomore OJ Frederique led the way with two, while Zechariah Poyser, Rueben Bain Jr., Smith, Mohamed Toure and Kellen Wiley each had one.
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