{"id":344428,"date":"2026-07-18T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344428\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:15:07","slug":"storm-cellar-the-miami-defense-dominated-the-pitt-offense-in-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344428\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Cellar: The MIAMI DEFENSE dominated the PITT OFFENSE in \u201825"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In 2025, the Miami Hurricanes dominated the Pitt Panthers 38-7 with a trip to the College Football Playoff on the line for the \u2018Canes. Miami hit the road in November to a chilly girlfriend of an afternoon at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, PA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The \u2018Canes led the first half 17-7 before scoring 21 unanswered points in the 2nd half to dominate Pat Narduzzi\u2019s Panthers. So what happened in the game? Miami\u2019s defense- that\u2019s what. Corey Hetherman\u2019s defense held Pitt to an abysmal 4-of-13 on 3rd down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Hurricanes defense also came away with one interception, four sacks, six tackles for loss and two PBU\u2019s. DE Rueben Bain Jr. and DT Ahmad Moten both came away with 1.5 TFL\u2019s and one sack a piece, and DB Bryce Fitzgerald played lights out at the nickel position with one INT, one PBU, one sack and one TFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">QB Mason Heintschel was held to 6.2 yards per pass attempt with one TD and the aforementioned INT. RB Ja\u2019Kyrian Turner averaged only 3.7 yards per carry, while Pitt\u2019s receivers were held to only nine yards per catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I analyze the Miami defense against Pitt\u2019s offense below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, the Miami Hurricanes dominated the Pitt Panthers 38-7 with a trip to the College Football Playoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4980,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-344428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-football-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}