UM Hurricanes Edge No. 17 Pittsburgh Panthers 38-34

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MIAMI (AP) – Tyler Van Dyke was buried connected the Miami extent illustration 2 months ago. The redshirt freshman tried to enactment patient, repeating to himself implicit and implicit that his clip would come.

Consider it here.

Brilliant astatine the commencement and gutty astatine the finish, Van Dyke threw for 426 yards and 3 touchdowns to outduel Heisman Trophy campaigner Kenny Pickett arsenic the Hurricanes edged No. 17 Pittsburgh 38-34 connected Saturday.

While Pickett threw for a school-record 519 yards, Van Dyke astir matched him portion completing 32 of 42 passes for the 3 scores and an interception arsenic Miami (4-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) defeated a ranked hostile for a 2nd consecutive week.

“He’s a freshman, but he’s making seasoned plays retired there,” choky extremity Will Mallory said of Van Dyke.

With much than conscionable his arm.

While Van Dyke deed Mallory for a 57-yard touchdown disconnected a reverse flea-flicker successful the archetypal quarter, helium besides recovered himself diving astatine a escaped shot successful the last minutes aft a fumble by Mallory threatened to outgo Miami a archetypal down and perchance the game.

Mallory could lone ticker arsenic the shot squirted escaped and went backward toward the Miami sideline. Van Dyke rushed implicit successful an effort to sound it retired of bounds. Chaos concisely ensued earlier officials ruled the shot out. The Hurricanes retained possession, allowing Van Dyke to kneel down 3 times.

Its play connected the brink of illness and manager Manny Diaz’s grasp connected his occupation tenuous astatine champion aft constrictive losses to Virginia and North Carolina, Miami has responded with taut victories implicit the Wolfpack and Panthers.

“If we proceed to play with the tone and the combat that we person (we’ll beryllium fine),” Diaz said. “It’s hard to hole combat if we don’t have, and we person it successful abundance.”

So does Pickett.

The elder continued to instrumentality implicit the Pitt grounds book. His 519 yards passing acceptable a Pitt single-game people connected a time helium besides broke Hall of Famer Dan Marino’s schoolhouse grounds for vocation touchdowns liable for (now astatine 84) and Alex Van Pelt’s grounds for vocation full offense.

“He is that guy,” Diaz said of Pickett. “He is special.”

But not infallible. Pickett completed 39 of 55 passes and 3 scores but besides tossed his 2nd and 3rd interceptions of the season. Both were costly.

The archetypal — by Miami’s Tyrique Stevenson successful the 2nd 4th — led to a Jaylan Knighton 1-yard touchdown tally that gave the Hurricanes a 31-17 halftime lead. The 2nd — by freshman information James Williams — came with 4:07 to play and Pitt driving for a go-ahead touchdown. Pickett threw down prima wide receiver Jordan Addison and Williams made a diving drawback astatine the Miami 4.

Pickett, who has mounted a Heisman Trophy run that’s morphed from improbable to morganatic implicit the past 2 months, blamed miscommunication connected the Williams pick.

Pitt (6-2, 3-1) remains successful power of its destiny successful the ACC Coastal Division but immoderate distant changeable astatine crashing the College Football Playoff is agelong gone.

“Never had a pb successful the game, and I thought we were going to instrumentality it successful the 4th fourth and (we) fell abbreviated astatine the end,” Panther manager Pat Narduzzi said. “Tough 1 to swallow, but we volition bounce back. All our goals are inactive successful beforehand of us. Still disappointing.”

PITT NOT SO SPECIAL

Pitt — which trailed by 14 earlier the crippled was 10 minutes aged — was threatening to gully adjacent aboriginal successful the 4th fourth erstwhile it faced third-and-goal from the Miami 5.

Offensive coordinator Mark Whipple called a mentation of the “Pitt Special” that led to an upset of Central Florida successful 2019. The instrumentality play calls for a nonstop drawback to a presumption subordinate portion Pickett goes successful motion. Tight extremity Lucas Krull took the drawback but Pickett was covered. Krull made 2 much reads earlier throwing incomplete successful the backmost of the extremity zone.

The Panthers settled for a tract extremity alternatively to gully wrong four. They got nary closer.

“Fourth-and-5 is simply a agelong one,” Narduzzi said. “We wanted to get 3 determination and go.”

THE TAKEAWAY

Miami: Van Dyke continues to amended by the week. Save for a fourth-quarter interception that doubled arsenic an “arm punt,” Van Dyke was each spot Pickett’s equal. The Hurricanes volition request him to proceed to airy it up portion a precise young defence searches for an identity.

Pitt: If Pickett finishes the play with numbers that merit Heisman consideration, it mightiness beryllium owed to a defence that remains erratic. A week aft handling Clemson, the Panthers gave up 492 yards and looked precise overmuch similar the portion that allowed 517 yards successful a location nonaccomplishment to Western Michigan successful September.

POLL IMPLICATIONS

The Panthers won’t amended connected the program’s highest in-season ranking since 2009 and mightiness request a small assistance to enactment successful the polls astatine all.

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Miami: Visits Georgia Tech adjacent Saturday.

Pitt: Travels to Duke adjacent Saturday.

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