Duke quarterback [autotag]Maalik Murphy[/autotag] lit up the scoreboard again on Sunday against the Miami Hurricanes despite the loss.
The redshirt sophomore finished with 325 yards and three touchdowns, and as a result, he moved into a tie for the fourth-most passing touchdowns in a single season in school history.
Murphy’s performance gave him 20 touchdowns for the season, a mark only eight other Blue Devils quarterbacks have matched in one year.
The former Texas Longhorn has thrown for 2,121 yards, 20 touchdowns, and eight interceptions through nine games this season. While he turned the ball over four times, his three-touchdown day helped Duke put up 31 points against the Hurricanes, the team’s best total against a Power Four opponent.
Murphy now sits alongside names like Ben Bennett (1982), Steve Slayden (1987), Thaddeus Lewis (2009), and Riley Leonard (2022). The three quarterbacks still ahead of him are, in order, Anthony Dilweg (who threw 24 in 1988), Daniel Jones (22 in 2018), and Thaddeus Lewis (21 in 2007).
With three games remaining on Duke’s schedule for the regular season, plus a likely bowl game, Murphy will have a great chance to take Dilweg’s record for himself. Duke will play NC State, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest for those three games.