FINAL: Notre Dame 31, Miami 24: Our Miami +7 Pushes Right on the Number

No. 1 Miami is at No. 11 Notre Dame tonight in South Bend. We took Miami +7, which means we win if the Hurricanes win or lose by 6 or fewer. A 7-point Notre Dame win is a push. Live updates below, newest first.

How It Was Decided

Notre Dame beat No. 1 Miami by exactly seven, so our Miami +7 is a push. CJ Carr threw for 319 yards and three touchdowns, two of them to Micah Gilbert, and the Irish led 24-3 early in the third quarter. Darian Mensah threw three touchdown passes to get Miami back in it, two to Cooper Barkate, but Nolan James Jr.’s 1-yard run early in the fourth put Notre Dame up 14, and Mensah’s last touchdown with 9:53 left only got the Canes back to the number. No win, no loss. We’ll take the push after that start.

Updates

FINAL | Notre Dame 31, Miami 24. Nolan James Jr. ran one in to make it 31-17, and Darian Mensah hit Cooper Barkate for a 1-yard touchdown with 9:53 left, but Miami never scored again. A 7-point loss lands right on our number: it’s a push.
4th quarter, 14:48 | Notre Dame 24, Miami 17. Notre Dame led 17-3 at halftime behind two CJ Carr touchdown passes, and Carr hit Micah Gilbert for another early in the third. Then Darian Mensah answered with two touchdown passes. We’re sitting exactly on the number right now, so one more Miami score flips this to a cover. Come on, Canes!

Jeremy Durham is a sports columnist for TriStar Daily and the founder of Five and a Fade.

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