{"id":398881,"date":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398881\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","slug":"miami-moves-up-to-no-5-in-the-ap-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398881\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami moves up to No. 5 in the AP Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/themiamihurricane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2376-vs-FAMU-2026-Edit.jpg\" data-caption=\"David Lebowitz, Photo Editor \/\/ Redshirt Junior Receiver Vandrevius Jacobs beats a Florida A&amp;M defender for the touchdown on September 10, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"763\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2376-vs-FAMU-2026-Edit-1068x763.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"2376 vs FAMU 2026-Edit\"\/><\/a>David Lebowitz, Photo Editor \/\/ Redshirt Junior Receiver Vandrevius Jacobs beats a Florida A&amp;M defender for the touchdown on September 10, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Miami Hurricanes moved up to No. 5 in the AP Poll this week following their 77-7 route of Florida A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canes showed no mercy on Thursday night, racking up a program-record 856 yards of total offense despite pulling the starters at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miami already has two Heisman candidates early in the season, with QB Darian Mensah and WR Malachi Toney garnering national attention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mensah has 653 yards and 8 TDs through the air to start the year, whereas Toney has 330 receiving yards and 4 TDs. Both players have only actually played 4 quarters of football as they were pulled early in both blowouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hurricanes are yet to face a real test so far, which will hold them back from the No.1 spot in the nation until they face some greater competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canes will play the schedule in front of them, starting with Wake Forest (2-0) on Friday evening in Winston-Salem. After that, UM will host Central Michigan (1-1) before heading to Death Valley to face the Clemson Tigers (1-1) on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miami\u2019s Week 3 matchup against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons will begin at 7:30 EST and will air on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themiamihurricane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1933-vs-FAMU-2026-Edit.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789329973_480_1933-vs-FAMU-2026-Edit-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162111\"  \/><\/a>David Lebowitz, Photo Editor \/\/ Senior Runningback Mark Fletcher celebrates with Sophomore Receiver Joshua Moore after a touchdown on September 10, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Lebowitz, Photo Editor \/\/ Redshirt Junior Receiver Vandrevius Jacobs beats a Florida A&amp;M defender for the touchdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-398881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398881","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=398881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}