Syracuse, N.Y. —The Syracuse University football team and the Miami Hurricanes were trading punts in a first-half defensive grind.

It was a scoreless game late into the second-quarter.

Miami looked like it wanted to be anywhere else except Hard Rock Stadium.

The whispers about another Mario Cristobal November noogie were building.

There actually was a fleeting hope that the Orange would make it a ball game.

We should have know better.

The inevitable bubble burst with 3:34 remaining in the second quarter.

That’s when Miami QB Carson Beck found Daylyn Upshaw on a tunnel screen for 41 yards and the Hurricanes offense awoke from a slumber.

Beck scored on a trick play a short time later from a wide receiver throwback tossed by Malachi Toney.

Four plays later, Miami CB Keionte Scott h

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