MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — They call him “Baby Jesus.”
Malachi Toney is 5-foot-11, quicker than a fox and faster than a cheetah — or so it seems on the football field. He’s also 17 years old and should be in high school right about now rather than catching six passes for the 10th-ranked Miami Hurricanes.
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Nevertheless, here he is.
So, too, is CJ Daniels, the former Liberty and LSU wideout whose one-handed touchdown grab Sunday night here at Hard Rock Stadium may go down as one of the best of the entire season — a sprawling, horizontal extension of a mitt that, surely, was glazed in glue.
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It’s a wonder what quarterback Carson Beck is capable of with receivers who can, you know, catch.
A year removed from leading a Georgia team that dropped more passes than any in the country, Beck opened his Miami career with a crew of wideouts that routinely got open, gobbled passes from the sky and helped their quarterback to a solid line: 20 of 30, 205 yards and two touchdowns.
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Beck’s debut highlighted Sunday’s top-10 duel here on a muggy, rainy and all-together soup-like night in South Florida. Miami beat sixth-ranked and defending national runner-up Notre Dame, 27-24, in a sort-of fashion that makes you think the Canes are real, like really real, like playoff and championship real.
Receivers? Check.
Quarterback? Check.
But, to the surprise perhaps of many, Mario Cristobal’s team has plenty more, or at least showed it for one night.
An offensive line controlling the game? Yes.
A defense making key stops? Mostly, yes.
And — how about this? — a packed stadium at kickoff in the rain? Yes, that too.
Miami Hurricanes kicker Carter Davis kicks the game-winning field goal to beat Notre Dame on Sunday. (Doug Murray/Getty Images)
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Despite it all, the Hurricanes needed to brave a fourth-quarter frenzy from the Irish. They blew second-half leads of 21-7…
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