Miami 45, Georgia Tech 30
When: 3:30 PM ET, Saturday, October 5, 2013
Where: Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida
Temperature:
89°
Head Official:
Jeff Flanagan
Attendance:
47008
By SportsDirect Inc.
No 14 Miami (Fla.) 45, Georgia Tech 30: Stephen Morris passed for three touchdowns and Duke Johnson rushed for 184 yards as the host Hurricanes rallied from a 17-7 deficit to win their ACC opener.
Miami (5-0, 1-0 ACC) overcame four turnovers, finishing with 551 yards of total offense. Morris completed 17-of-22 passes for 324 yards and Dallas Crawford added a pair of fourth-quarter touchdown runs.
David Sims rushed for two touchdowns for Georgia Tech (3-2, 2-2), which lost its second in a row. Sims’ 6-yard scoring run with 10:38 left pulled the Yellow Jackets within 24-23, but Harrison Butker missed the extra point wide left.
Miami took a 24-17 lead with 1:44 left in the third quarter when Morris hit Allen Hurns on the left sideline on third-and-15, and Hurns slipped a tackle en route to a 69-yard touchdown. After Butker’s extra-point miss, the Hurricanes scored on two Crawford touchdown runs to build a 38-23 advantage.
Sims and Charles Perkins scored on first-quarter runs as the Yellow Jackets took a 17-7 lead after one quarter. The Hurricanes rallied in the final nine minutes of the first half, with Morris throwing a 4-yard touchdown pass to Clive Walford with 8:22 left and Matt Goudis’ 24-yard field goal with 29 seconds left to tie the game at 17 at halftime.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Miami trailed for the first time this season. … Butker had converted his first 20 extra-point attempts of the season. … Johnson did not score a touchdown for the first time in nine games.
Top Game Performances
Rushing
Georgia Tech |
|
Miami |
David Sims
|
Player |
Duke Johnson
|
16 |
Attempts |
22 |
77 |
Yards |
184 |
4.8 |
Avg Yards |
8.4 |
2 |
Touchdowns |
0 |
0 |
Long |
0 |
Receiving
Georgia Tech |
|
Miami |
Darren Waller
| Player |
Allen Hurns
|
2 |
Receptions |
4 |
41 |
Yards |
108 |
20.5 |
Avg Yards |
27.0 |
0 |
Touchdowns |
1 |
0 |
Long |
0 |
Team Stats Summary
|
Yards |
Scoring |
Defense |
Team |
Tot |
Rus |
Pas |
TD |
FG |
INT |
Sck |
FF |
Georgia Tech
|
401 |
335 |
66 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
1.0 |
1 |
Miami
|
551 |
227 |
324 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
2.0 |
2 |