Numbers to Know
3 – Number of times the ball was deflected before Bain was able to haul in a fourth-quarter interception that led to a 38-yard field goal from Davis. Along with the interception, Bain had a team-high six tackles and, with Mesidor, notched the biggest sack of the night for the Miami defense.
66 – Rushing yards for Hurricanes running back Mark Fletcher Jr. That was a game high and helped Miami outrush Notre Dame 119-93.
17 – Toney’s age on Sunday when he made the first start of his collegiate career. The former four-star prospect had a team-high six catches for 82 yards. Toney reclassified to the Class of 2025 before his final season of high school at American Heritage in Plantation and was able to join the Hurricanes earlier this year for spring drills.
2 – Touchdown passes for Beck, a transfer from Georgia who was injured in last year’s SEC Championship Game and needed offseason elbow surgery to get back on the field. Beck missed all of spring practice with the Hurricanes while going through the recovery and rehabilitation process. Sunday night marked Beck’s first action on the football field since last December. The quarterback completed three of his first four passes on Miami’s opening drive.
6 – Points scored by Davis in the fourth quarter. Davis, a transfer from FAU, connected on field goals from 38 and 47 yards late in the game to help Miami clinch the win.
1977 – Year when Notre Dame last beat the Hurricanes in a game played in Miami.
Quotable
“It means a lot. Everybody knows I’m from down here, so, getting to actually feed into the program that I grew up watching, getting to be the person – a good reason – why this happened tonight, along with my brothers on the field, man, it’s just heartwarming. Just knowing that this is the dream I had coming as a kid growing up in Miami, man, there’s a reason I stayed home, so I could do things like this in front of my family, in front of the city.”
– Defensive lineman Rueben Bain, Jr. on what Sunday’s win meant to him as a hometown Hurricane
“I always have a routine, so I try to do my routine as much as possible [and] try not to let the crowd – which was very active tonight – get into my head or any of my systems. And once I looked up at it and I saw that it was in, I’d say my heartbeat kind of skipped, plus accelerated. I was just so excited for it.”
– Kicker Carter Davis on his go-ahead 47-yard field goal that helped the…
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