Miami (OH) Climbs Out of a Two-touchdown Hole to Beat UConn
Brady Stidham's 33-yard field goal with 1:58 left was the last score of a game Miami (OH) looked to have little business winning early on. UConn led by two touchdowns by the 6:23 mark of the first quarter, and the RedHawks ended up on top 24-21. Nobody would call it pretty. Everybody involved gets a win or a loss out of it anyway.
Here is how the climb went. David McComb ran in from 10 yards in the second quarter to make it 14-7, then hit Brendan Loftus for 57 yards with 1:50 before halftime to tie it at 14. Miami took its first lead on McComb's 11-yard pass to Scoop Smith late in the third quarter, UConn tied it again at 21-21 on a 1-yard Cyncir Bowers run, and the game went into the fourth quarter even. Stidham settled it.
The yardage was Miami's: 415 to 361, with 325 of that through the air against UConn's 215. Giveaways were close to a wash, with each team losing a fumble, but UConn also threw an interception and Miami threw none. If you want one number, that is the one. Smith, by the way, caught six passes for 34 yards and the touchdown.
Both teams are 2-2, so nobody got to feel too good or too bad about it, which is a very mid-major kind of Saturday (I say that with love). For fantasy owners, McComb's 33.8 points were the week's big prize on that field, though Kalieb Osborne, who threw for a score, ran for one and lost a fumble, still got you 27.4 for his troubles.