Signature win for 'Canes: Miami knocks off Sooners

MIAMI — Once Jacory Harris settled down and Miami's defense got rolling, the Hurricanes found the right combination for their biggest win in years. And for Sam Bradford-less Oklahoma, it was just another frustrating trip to South Florida.Harris survived a shaky start to throw three touchdown passes, Javarris James ran for a career-high 150 yards against the nation's top rush defense, and No. 17 Miami knocked off No. 8 Oklahoma 21-20 on Saturday night — in what will join some games from the 1980s as another Hurricanes-Sooners classic.With Oklahoma's reigning Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback watching from the sideline, still out with a right shoulder injury, Miami (3-1) scored 21 straight points to take control."It's our time," said linebacker Jordan Futch. "We are back. We are still The U."Oklahoma led 10-0 early, significant because for nearly seven years, that's been automatic doom for Sooners foes. Oklahoma had won 40 straight when scoring at least the game's first 10 points, dating to Nov. 9, 2002.Not this time.Not against a Miami team that was desperate for a signature victory, and delivered.And when Miami was able to run out the clock, its home building shook with joy.Oklahoma's last trip to the Hurricanes' home field was last January, when it lost the BCS national championship game to Florida.This one almost certainly ended any Sooners national title hopes, too. Landry Jones threw for 188 yards and DeMarco Murray and Chris Brown combined to rush for 151 more for Oklahoma (2-2).The teams last met in September 2007, a 51-13 romp by Oklahoma. That game shaped today's Hurricanes in a number of ways: For the older players, it was humiliating, and for the ones like Harris who were in high school at the time, it reaffirmed that they wanted to be part of the group that brought Miami back to prominence.But Saturday surely didn't start the way Miami wanted.Harris threw interceptions on Miami's first two drives, the first so easy for Oklahoma's Dominique Franks to grab that it wasn't even clear who wa

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