{"id":411734,"date":"2026-09-27T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:46:10","slug":"no-6-miami-routs-central-michigan-52-3-to-stay-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411734\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 6 Miami routs Central Michigan 52-3 to stay unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darian Mensah passed for 338 yards and three touchdowns, plus ran for another score as No. 6 Miami capped an unbeaten September by topping Central Michigan 52-3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Malachi Toney caught six passes for 120 yards and a touchdown for Miami (4-0), and all four of Mensah&#8217;s touchdowns came in the second quarter. Cooper Barkate and Daylyn Upshaw also caught scoring passes from Mensah, who completed 23 of 27 throws.<\/p>\n<p>Even with only four incompletions, Mensah&#8217;s completion percentage for the season dipped. It&#8217;s now 88.7%, down slightly from the 89.9% clip he had entering Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah \u2013 whose scoring run capped a 97-yard TD drive late in the second quarter for a 35-3 halftime lead \u2013 has 14 touchdown throws, 12 incompletions, and zero interceptions this season.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gettyimages-2297315850.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Central Michigan v Miami \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Darian Mensah #10 of the Miami (FL) Hurricanes looks to pass against the Central Michigan Chippewas during the first half at Hard Rock Stadium on September 26, 2026 in Miami Gardens, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>                Carmen Mandato \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Offensive lineman Jamal Meriweather was credited with a touchdown after falling on a fumble for Miami, which is unbeaten entering October for the fourth consecutive season. Javian Mallory and Chris Wheatley-Humphrey each ran for scores for the Hurricanes, who paid tribute to their 1991 national championship team in a halftime ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Jadyn Glasser completed 13 of 15 passes off the bench for 88 yards for Central Michigan (2-2).<\/p>\n<p>Miami was without top running back Mark Fletcher Jr., out with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Central Michigan: Give the Chippewas credit \u2014 they were the first team to lead Miami this season. A pair of penalties and a sack thwarted Miami&#8217;s first drive, and Central Michigan answered with an 11-play series capped by Caden VanHuis&#8217; 49-yard field goal for a 3-0 edge.<\/p>\n<p>Miami: The real tests await. Miami has eight games left in the regular season, seven against Atlantic Coast Conference foes \u2014 the other a Nov. 7 game at Notre Dame that could have massive College Football Playoff implications.<\/p>\n<p>In a four-minute span of the third quarter, Miami reached the end zone four times. Only one counted. <\/p>\n<p>Damon Wilson II&#8217;s 63-yard fumble return touchdown came off the board when Miami&#8217;s Marquise Lightfoot \u2014 who forced the takeaway \u2014 was flagged for unnecessary roughness after the turnover. Toney had a 12-yard scoring catch (a one-handed grab) nullified when he was called for offensive pass interference, and Jordan Lyle&#8217;s score off a direct snap didn&#8217;t count because referee Garrett Dickerson was still explaining a flag from the previous play.<\/p>\n<p>Lyle fumbled the ball on the next play, but Meriweather fell on it near the back of the end zone.<\/p>\n<p>Central Michigan: Hosts Akron on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Miami: Visits Clemson on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darian Mensah passed for 338 yards and three touchdowns, plus ran for another score as No. 6 Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[143,57,123,125,124,7642,110],"class_list":["post-411734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-michigan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411734","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=411734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}