Harris survived a shaky start to throw three touchdown passes, Javarris James ran for a career-high 150 yards against the nation's top-ranked 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," Miami linebacker Jordan Futch said. "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 for Oklahoma (2-2).
The teams last met in September 2007, a 51-13 romp by Oklahoma.
That game shaped today's Hurricanes in several ways: For the older players, it was humiliating, and for the ones such as 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 was the intended receiver. Oklahoma turned that one into a 16-yard TD pass from Jones to Cameron Kenney, and stretched the lead to 10-0 in the second quarter on Jimmy Stevens' 21-yard field goal.
Yet Oklahoma had to be disappointed at that point: A 95-yard drive mustered only three points.
James ripped off a 50-yard run midway through the second quarter. Two plays later, thanks to a recovered Harris fumble by lineman Matt Pipho, Jimmy Graham - he of the two crucial drops last week against Virginia Tech - caught an 18-yard TD pass to help Miami claw within 10-7 at the half.
Barely a half-minute into the third quarter, the Hurricanes took the lead. Joe Joseph forced a fumble on the Sooners' first drive, and Harris connected with Dedrick Epps for an 11-yard score that put Miami up 14-10.
And that's when Oklahoma got rattled. A pair of 15-yard penalties on the next Sooners possession led to a fourth-and-42 scenario, giving Miami the ball back - and Harris came through with it, hitting Benjamin for a 38-yard score and 21-10 lead.
