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Durham: Miami beats Duke 36-25

Miami won 36-25 Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium. Duke's game page lists the quarters as 0-10-7-8 and 0-13-9-14. The Miami Herald labels the result final. The Associated Press prints the same score.

ConfirmedThe main facts are confirmed by official or first-hand sources.

By Alexandru Stanciu · Published

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What we know

Confirmed

  • Miami beat Duke 36-25 on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium. Duke's football game page lists the end of the fourth quarter, Duke 25 and Miami 36, and the quarters Duke 0, 10, 7 and 8, Miami 0, 13, 9 and 14. The Miami Herald headline reads FINAL: No. 7 Miami Hurricanes 36, Duke Blue Devils 25, updated 3:41 p.m. The Associated Press opening says Miami beat Duke 36-25 on Saturday.Confirmed by Duke Athletics game page; Miami Herald; Associated Press
  • The Duke page lists the Blue Devils at 7-3 and Miami at 9-1 after the game. The Associated Press opening also lists Miami at 9-1 and 7-0 in the ACC. Duke's conference record is not in that opening, so this file does not print one. The Herald headline calls Miami No. 7. The Associated Press headline, as indexed, says No. 5, and the opening's record line says No. 7 CFP. This file does not pick a ranking.Confirmed by Duke Athletics game page; Associated Press; Miami Herald for the No. 7 headline
  • The Associated Press says Darian Mensah passed for 382 yards and a touchdown, and that Javian Mallory scored three times. Duke's game page also lists Mensah at 382 passing yards. It lists Mallory at 71 rushing yards. The Herald's live log, next to a 39-yard Mallory rushing score, prints 71 rushing yards and three touchdowns for him. The 382-yard total and the three scores are used here. The one passing touchdown is the wire's line.Confirmed by Associated Press; Duke Athletics game page; Miami Herald live log for the 71 rushing yards and three scores
  • The Associated Press says Mark Fletcher Jr. also rushed for a score. The Herald's live log describes a 4-yard Fletcher rushing touchdown in the second quarter. The distance stays with the Herald. The fact of a Fletcher rushing score is in both.Confirmed by Associated Press; Miami Herald
  • The Associated Press says Cooper Barkate caught eight passes for 134 yards, his first 100-yard game for Miami, and that he and Mensah are former Duke players. The Herald says Mensah and Barkate faced their former team. Duke's game page lists Barkate as a receiving leader and does not print a yardage total in the text that rendered here, so the 8-for-134 line stays with the wire. The page lists Walker Eget at 195 passing yards and Nate Sheppard at 131 rushing yards and 93 receiving yards. Those three Eget and Sheppard figures are the game page only.Confirmed by Associated Press; Miami Herald for the former-team point; Duke Athletics game page
  • The Duke game page lists these team lines, which a second outlet's full box did not confirm in the pages read here: first downs 19 and 26, rushing 130 and 150, passing 211 and 382, plays and yards 61 for 341 and 73 for 532, penalties 4 for 18 and 10 for 67, possession 25:47 and 34:13, third down 5 of 12 and 6 of 12. Duke's game-info line prints Coral Gables, Fla. The Associated Press dateline is Miami Gardens, Fla. This file uses the stadium name and does not choose between those two city lines.Confirmed by Duke Athletics game page; Associated Press dateline

Still unknown

  • One poll number for Miami. The Herald headline says No. 7. The Associated Press headline, as indexed, says No. 5, and the opening says No. 7 in the CFP ranking. This file does not pick one
  • The city line under the stadium. Duke's game info prints Coral Gables. The Associated Press dateline is Miami Gardens. The stadium name is the point this file states
  • Duke's ACC record after the game. The game page prints 7-3 and Miami 9-1. It does not print a conference mark for Duke in the text read here. The wire's 7-0 is Miami's
  • A full play-by-play from a Duke box score. The game page rendered the final, the quarters and the team totals. A separate box-score page was not the source for this file
  • Sheppard's touchdown distances and Eget's passing total beyond the game page. The Herald's running account describes Sheppard scores. Those distances are not copied here as a final line

What happened

In Durham, Miami beat Duke 36-25 on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium.

Duke's game page lists the end of the fourth quarter at 25-36, with quarters of 0, 10, 7 and 8 for the Blue Devils and 0, 13, 9 and 14 for Miami. The Miami Herald, updated at 3:41 p.m., puts FINAL on a 36-25 headline. The Associated Press opening reports the same Saturday score. The kickoff on the Duke page is noon.

That page lists Duke at 7-3 and Miami at 9-1. The wire's opening also has Miami at 9-1, and 7-0 in the ACC. A Duke conference record is not in the lines used here. The Herald headline says No. 7. The wire headline, as indexed, says No. 5, and the same opening calls Miami No. 7 in the College Football Playoff ranking. No single ranking is adopted.

The stadium is the place this story names. Duke's game-info line prints Coral Gables, Fla. The Associated Press dateline is Miami Gardens, Fla. Those city lines are not merged.

Saturday's other Triangle football final is Syracuse's win at NC State. Duke's last trip to Carter-Finley is the 41-3 win. Home results already on this site include the 24-20 loss to UNC and the 19-16 win at Virginia.

What the wire and the school page agree on

Darian Mensah passed for 382 yards. The game page and the Associated Press both use that number. The wire adds one touchdown pass, against his former school. The game-page leader line does not print the touchdown count, so that part stays with the wire.

Javian Mallory scored three times, in the Associated Press opening and in the Herald's running log. Duke's page lists 71 rushing yards for him. The Herald log prints the same 71 beside a 39-yard rushing score and a note of three touchdowns. Mark Fletcher Jr. rushed for a score in the wire story. The Herald log describes that score as a 4-yard run in the second quarter. The distance is the newspaper's.

Cooper Barkate caught eight passes for 134 yards in the Associated Press account, which calls it his first 100-yard game for Miami and identifies him, like Mensah, as a former Duke player. The Herald also says the two faced their former team. Duke's page names Barkate among the receivers and does not show a yardage figure in the text that rendered here. The 8-for-134 line is the wire's.

Figures that are the game page

Walker Eget is listed at 195 passing yards. Nate Sheppard is listed at 131 rushing yards and 93 receiving yards. A second outlet's final line for those three numbers was not in the pages this file uses, so they stay with Duke's page. The Herald's live notes describe Sheppard touchdown runs. The distances in that running account are not reprinted as the final sheet.

The same page lists 19 and 26 first downs, 130 and 150 rushing yards, 211 and 382 passing yards, 61 plays for 341 yards and 73 plays for 532, penalties of 4 for 18 and 10 for 67, possession of 25:47 and 34:13, and third down at 5 of 12 and 6 of 12. Those totals are the school page.

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Why it matters

Duke is Durham's ACC football team. Saturday's game at Hard Rock Stadium ended 36-25 for Miami on the school page, in the Miami Herald and in the Associated Press.

Updates

  1. Nov 14, 2026, 3:50 PM

    First file. The 36-25 final is the Duke game page, the Miami Herald headline marked FINAL, and the Associated Press opening. The quarters are the game page. Mensah's 382 yards are the game page and the wire. Mallory's three scores are the wire and the Herald log. The 71 rushing yards are the game page and that log. Fletcher's rushing score is the wire and the Herald. Barkate's 8 for 134 stays with the wire. No ranking is stated as a single fact. lead is false. onTikTok is false. Text-only.

Sources

  1. Football at Miami on 11/14/2026, game page (Duke Athletics, read Nov. 14, 2026: end of the fourth quarter; Duke 25, Miami 36; quarters 0-10-7-8 and 0-13-9-14; records Duke 7-3 and Miami 9-1; Hard Rock Stadium; game info prints Coral Gables, Fla., and noon; Mensah 382 passing yards; Mallory 71 rushing yards; Eget 195 passing yards; Sheppard 131 rushing and 93 receiving; Barkate listed as a receiving leader without a yardage figure in the rendered text; team stats first downs 19-26, rush 130-150, pass 211-382, 61 plays for 341 and 73 for 532, penalties 4-18 and 10-67, possession 25:47 and 34:13, third down 5-12 and 6-12. Text-only. No athletics photo is used.)

    Official sourcePublished by Duke Athletics · Checked Nov 14, 2026, 3:50 PM

  2. Mensah, Mallory lead No. 5 Miami past Duke 36-25 (Associated Press, opening read Nov. 14, 2026: Miami Gardens, Fla., dateline; Mensah 382 yards and a touchdown against his former school; Mallory scored three times; Miami beat Duke 36-25 on Saturday; Fletcher also rushed for a score; Miami 9-1, 7-0 ACC, No. 7 CFP; Barkate, a former Duke player, eight catches for 134 yards, called his first 100-yard game for Miami. The indexed headline says No. 5. The full wire story past that opening was not in the copy used here, so later paragraphs are not cited. Text-only. No AP photo is used.)

    Third-party sourcePublished by Associated Press · Checked Nov 14, 2026, 3:50 PM

  3. FINAL: No. 7 Miami Hurricanes 36, Duke Blue Devils 25 (Miami Herald, Jordan McPherson, updated November 14, 2026, 3:41 p.m.: Hard Rock Stadium; 36-25 win. The live log describes Fletcher's 4-yard rushing touchdown, Mallory scores including a 39-yard run with a line of 71 rushing yards and three touchdowns, and Mensah and Barkate facing their former team. The 4-yard distance stays with this log. Text-only. No Herald photo is used.)

    Third-party sourcePublished by Miami Herald · Checked Nov 14, 2026, 3:50 PM

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