Game Stats (pdf)MIAMI (AP) - Tyrone Moss matched a career-high with three touchdowns and No. 9 Miami ended South Florida's (3-2) hopes of springing a second straight upset with a sloppy 27-7 win on Saturday.
Moss ran for 89 yards and had scoring runs of 1 and 19 yards in the first quarter, when Miami (3-1) took advantage of three South Florida turnovers to build an early 17-0 lead.
Miami scored on four of its first five possessions, then didn't add to the total until Moss' 1-yard, fourth-down plunge with 8:25 left. South Florida avoided the shutout - which would have been the first in its 93-game history - with 5:56 left, when
Johnny Peyton caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from
Pat Julmiste .
The teams combined for nine turnovers, with South Florida having all five of its giveaways before halftime.
The Bulls (3-2) finished with a season-low 174 total yards, more than half of them in the fourth quarter with the outcome long decided.
Andre Hall , who came in averaging 117 yards per game and cracked the 138-yard plateau in six of his previous nine starts, managed 53 yards on 19 carries.
Amarri Jackson , who ran for two scores and threw for another against Louisville, was a non-factor and finished with only 7 yards receiving.
Kyle Wright completed 13 of 26 for 173 yards for the Hurricanes. Lovon Ponder had two of Miami's four interceptions, with Devin Hester and Brandon Meriweather each picking off a pass.
Julmiste completed 8 of 25 passes for 47 yards and three interceptions for South Florida.
Late in the first quarter, Wright fumbled a snap on second-and-goal from the Bulls' 7, and South Florida recovered. And midway through the second, Wright hooked up with tight end Greg Olsen for a 63-yard catch-and-run play, but South Florida cornerback
Mike Jenkins made a touchdown-saving play.
Jenkins - one of five Bulls chasing Olsen, who was sprinting down the center of the field - punched the ball from Olsen's arm at the 6, and it bounced out of the end zone for a touchback.
