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The Hurricanes’ loss to SMU was a brutal defeat. Miami effectively lost the game when quarterback Carson Beck threw an overtime interception, allowing the Mustangs to win with any score on the subsequent drive.

UM is still feeling the ramifications of that loss — it could potentially cost the Hurricanes a shot at the College Football Playoff — but there was one bright spot that might have escaped most observers.

“I saw it in the SMU game. We didn’t play well. We got beat,” UM offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said. “But I left that game and I’m like, ‘(Carson Beck is) about to start playing his a– off because the balls were going to the right place at the right time, his comfort level in the pocket, the lay of the way everything was go

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