Miami's 1991 national champions returned home Saturday night to be honored and celebrated, as their legend grows with each passing year. "Those '91 guys, as the years go by, they get bigger than King Kong and Godzilla, man," said Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal, who played on that team. On the field, Darian Mensah was building his own legacy as the Hurricanes (4-0, 1-0 ACC) demolished Central Michigan 52-3 to remain undefeated.
"We've come a long way and we've shown some good things," Mensah told reporters. "But like Cristobal always says, we've got a long way to go." The Miami quarterback went 23 of 27 for 338 yards and three touchdowns, and ran for another. Somehow, the flashy stat line was a normal night for him.
His record-chasing start to the season enters the second month with an eye-popping stat: 14 touchdown passes against only 12 incompletions. Mensah is the only FBS quarterback in 30 years with more touchdown passes than incompletions through his first four games, according to CBS Sports Research. A CBS Sports review of box scores for every FBS quarterback since 2004 found no one else who had done it through three games — except one quarterback, and he did it alongside Mensah this season.
Georgia's Gunner Stockton had matched Mensah entering Week 4, throwing nine touchdown passes against only seven incompletions. Mensah had 11 TDs and eight incompletions at the time. Since 2004, the only other quarterback with more touchdowns than incompletions through three games was Baylor's Robert Griffin III in 2011, the year he won the Heisman Trophy.
This fall, two starting FBS quarterbacks did it at once for the first time. Stockton got there with efficiency, never throwing more than 16 passes in the first three games. Then Oklahoma arrived, and the run ended Saturday as Stockton went 14 of 25 for 171 yards with one touchdown and his first interception of the season, leaving him at 10 touchdowns and 18 incompletions.
Stockton still holds a stellar 209.1 passer rating. Mensah's early-season tear is unmatched. In Week 3, he completed his first 24 passes, an ACC record, in a win at Wake Forest.
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