Pac-12 Bowl Record at 2-1 After Oregon’s Thrilling Win Over UNC

Oregon overcame a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit by scoring a landing with 19 seconds left, then changing an additional level that bounced off the upright, giving the Geese an exhilarating 28-27 victory over North Carolina within the Vacation Bowl in San Diego on Wednesday.

The consequence offers the Pac-12 a 2-1 report in bowl video games to this point with 4 extra to play. (The bowl information by convention can be found on the finish of this story.)

Geese quarterback Bo Nix was mediocre a lot of the recreation, however he got here alive after North Carolina had taken a 24-14 lead with 9:14 left within the fourth quarter. That’s when Nix started to resemble the standout quarterback he was via the primary 9 video games of the common season, earlier than his ankle damage.

He threw a 6-yard scoring cross to Troy Franklin, who made a exceptional catch to make it 24-21 with 6:58 to go. (The video beneath misidentifies the receiver; it was Franklin, No. 11)

After North Carolina (9-5) kicked a discipline aim to go forward by six factors with 2:29 to go, Nix led the Geese (10-3) on 79-yard march. That drive ended when Nix, going through a fourth-and-2 from the Tar Heels’ 6-yard line, threw a cross whereas falling backward that was caught by Chase Coda on the 2-yard line earlier than he barely bought the ball over the goal-line with 19 seconds remaining.

That tied the sport 27-27, and Oregon kicker Camden Lewis practically missed the additional level. However the ball hit off the left upright and barely bounced via for the go-ahead level.

On the final play of the sport, North Carolina handed up an opportunity to strive a game-winning 57-yard discipline aim, as an alternative attempting a Hail Mary cross by Drake Maye that fell incomplete in the long run zone.

Till Oregon’s late comeback, the play of the sport had been a exceptional and bizarre North Carolina interception late within the second quarter that helped the Tar Heels take a 21-14 lead into halftime.

The rating was tied 14-14 when Oregon confronted a second-and-5 on the North Carolina 16-yard line with 35 seconds left within the half. Nix’s cross was behind the supposed receiver, kicked off the calf of 1 North Carolina defender, then was kicked barely by the Tar Heels’ Energy Echols, who caught the ball earlier than the ball hit the bottom and returned it 40 yards to the 49-yard line. Maye threw a landing cross on the following play to place the Tar Heels forward by seven, and till the ultimate jiffy that appeared just like the play of the sport.

Listed here are two views of the interception, with the second in sluggish movement displaying how inconceivable the decide was:

Nix completed 23-for-30 for 205 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, whereas Maye was 18-for-35 for 206 yards, three touchdowns (all within the first half) and no interceptions.  Bucky Irving ran for 149 yards and two scores, together with a TD run of 66 yards.

The Pac-12 has already surpassed what it has performed the previous two years within the postseason, going 0-5 in bowls final 12 months and 0-2 the 12 months earlier than.

Listed here are the bowl information by convention to this point this season (with the variety of groups in bowl video games in parentheses):

Pac-12: 2-1 (7)

ACC: 3-1 (9)

Large 12: 1-3 (8)

Large Ten: 1-0 (9)

Convention-USA: 3-3 (6)

Independents: 2-2 (5)

MAC: 3-2 (6)

Mountain West: 3-3 (7)

SEC: 1-3 (11)

Solar Belt: 3-4 (7)

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Cowl picture of Oregon’s Chase Coda scoring the landing with 19 seconds left is by Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports activities

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