SportsDirect Inc. staff
Sep 20, 2014
No. 22 Nebraska 41, Miami (Fla.) 31: Ameer Abdullah rushed for 229 yards and scored three times,
setting a career school record in the process, to lead the
Cornhuskers to a win over the visiting Hurricanes.
Abdullah passed Johnny Rodgers
for the top spot in career all-purpose yards at Nebraska (4-0),
catching a 3-yard touchdown pass and scoring twice on the ground. Tommy Armstrong Jr. rushed for 96 yards and passed for
113 and two scores while Kenny Bell made four catches for 70
yards and a TD.
Brad Kaaya was 28-of-42 for 359
yards and three touchdowns for Miami (2-2), which turned over the ball three times. Duke Johnson had 93 yards and a touchdown on the
ground and caught five passes for 84 yards to lead the Hurricanes in
both categories.
Johnson opened the scoring for
Miami with a 2-yard run less than five minutes into the contest, but
the Cornhuskers responded two minutes later as Armstrong found Bell
for a 40-yard score. The Hurricanes took a 14-7 lead early
in the second, when Kaaya connected with Clive Walford for a 6-yard
touchdown, but Nebraska scored 17 straight points on a pair of TDs by Abdullah sandwiched around Drew Brown's 19-yard field goal
at the end of the second quarter.
Kaaya got Miami back within three
on a 9-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Lewis, but the Cornhuskers upped
the lead to 10 when Josh Mitchell returned a fumble by Johnson 57
yards for a score near the end of the third. Michael Badgley and
Brown swapped field goals in the fourth, but a six-play, 70-yard
drive กช aided by three personal-foul penalties by the Hurricanes กช
was capped by Abdullah's 10-yard TD run with 4:13 remaining to put
Nebraska comfortably ahead.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Rodgers set the
previous career mark at Nebraska with 5,586 yards from 1970 to 1972.
กญ The Hurricanes were held to just 76 rushing yards on 23 attempts.
กญ Abdullah had one career 200-yard rushing game heading into this
season but already has two in 2014.