No. 6 Miami outlasts Louisville 52-45, improves to 7-0

Cam Ward passed for 319 yards and four touchdowns as No. 6 Miami went on the road to Louisville 52-45 in an ACC game on Saturday afternoon.Miami (7-0, 3-0) entered the game as the highest-scoring team in the nation at 47.7 points per game, and the Hurricanes continued to roll to their first 7-0 start since 2017.Tyler Shough passed for 342 yards and four TDs for Louisville (4-3, 2-2), which also got a 100-yard kickoff return from Caullin Lacy.The Cardinals never led after an early 7-3 advantage and trailed 10-7 after one quarter before falling behind 24-17 at halftime.On a day of big plays, first-half highlights included a 55-yard field goal from Miami’s Andres Borregales, a 43-yard TD run by Louisville’s Isaac Brown and Ward’s 27-yard TD pass to Jacolby George.Ward also tossed a 49-yard TD pass to Samuel Brown in the second quarter. On its next drive, Louisville cut its deficit to 17-14 when Shough flipped a 3-yard TD pass to tight end Mark Redman.Miami also got a defensive TD in the second quarter on a fumble recovery in the end zone from linebacker Raul Aguirre Jr. to stretch its lead to 24-14. Rueben Bain Jr. and Simeon Barrow Jr. forced the fumble.Miami took the second-half kickoff and mounted a 14-play drive that ended with Ward’s 9-yard TD pass to Xavier Restrepo for a 31-17 lead. Miami had four third-down conversions on the drive, including the TD.

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