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Miami's offense didn't do a lot for most of the game while the defense couldn't seem to stop Riley Skinner and the Wake Forest offense.
Yet none of that mattered, thanks to Jacory Harris and his opportunistic Hurricanes teammates.
Harris threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Travis Benjamin with 1:08 left and No. 18 Miami rallied past the Demon Deacons 28-27 on Saturday.
Harris threw for 330 yards and three touchdowns for the Hurricanes (6-2, 3-2 ACC), who trailed 27-14 going into the final period. Despite being outplayed most of the way, Miami hung around thanks to some mistakes by Wake Forest - then made its move when the Demon Deacons made a few too many.
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The biggest was a muffed punt near the goal line that the Hurricanes recovered and quickly converted into a short touchdown. While the Demon Deacons still led 27-21, it gave the Hurricanes some momentum in a game that seemed to be slipping away only a few minutes earlier.
"That was key because it gave us the opportunity to put some points on the board after we just had a three-and-out," Harris said. "It was like God sent something from the heavens."
After getting the ball back with 2:40 to play, Harris directed an 82-yard scoring drive in the final minutes - which included a 29-yard catch by Aldarius Johnson on fourth down - that ended with Benjamin's diving catch near the left pylon.
It was a heck of a way to bounce back from last week's overtime home loss to Clemson.
"We went through a lot of stuff my first year," Miami coach Randy Shannon said. "We would get behind or things would go bad, and we weren't really able to respond. Well, we responded on this night when things went bad for us."
It was a frustrating finish for the Demon Deacons (4-5, 2-3), who scored the first 17 points and looked to be in control. Skinner looked sharp in leading their offense, throwing for 349 yards and touchdowns to Chris Givens and Tommy Bohanon while keeping Miami's defense off balance with quick and accurate throws.
He also ran for a 7-yard touchdown that made it 17-0 early in the second quarter, but everything changed when he took a hard hit on a keeper that ripped off his helmet and broke his facemask with about 6 1/2 minutes left in the game. The 12-yard gain moved the chains to keep the Demon Deacons in position to melt the clock, but Skinner was slow to get up, then dropped to a knee after making his way back to the huddle.
