Syracuse Goes for Two in Overtime and Beats North Carolina 31-30
Syracuse needed one play at the end, and it was a two-point conversion. Steve Angeli hit Calvin Russell III from 4 yards out for the touchdown in overtime, then threw to Russell again for the two points, and the Orange beat North Carolina 31-30.
It should not have come to that for either side. North Carolina started 10-0, with a 5-yard touchdown from Billy Edwards Jr. to Jordan Shipp and a 27-yard Rece Verhoff field goal, and was up 20-10 after Demon June ran 25 yards in the third quarter. Syracuse did not roll over. Umari Hatcher caught a 76-yard touchdown from Angeli at 11:01 of the fourth to make it 17-20, Verhoff kicked a 22-yarder to make it 23-17, and Tylik Hill scored from 3 yards at 1:54 to tie it at 23-23. The extra point on that one failed, which is the sort of thing that matters when a game is going to go to overtime anyway.
In overtime North Carolina went first. Edwards threw a 3-yard touchdown to June and Verhoff's kick made it 30-23. Then Angeli and Russell answered, and Syracuse went for the win instead of the tie. The offense that did it ran for 202 yards, with Ahmad Miller carrying 30 times for 125. Neither team turned the ball over, so there were no cheap points anywhere.
Syracuse is 3-4 and North Carolina is 4-3. For fantasy, Shipp was the top scorer at 24.2 points on eight catches for 102 yards, and Russell's 22.6 was a season high.