Regular season ·

Wake Forest beat Syracuse

No. 19 Wake Forest6-040
Syracuse3-337Final
Sat, Oct 9 · Carrier Dome, Syracuse, N.Y. · Crowd 38,554 · IndoorsESPN2

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 19 Wake Forest beat Syracuse by 3 points in overtime.

How the game turned

Wake Forest aheadSyracuse aheadBiggest swingLow: 26%
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Q4 3:28 Wake Forest 34, Syracuse 27

Wake Forest 89% to win

Beal-Smith 10-yd TD run, two-point try good, Wake Forest goes ahead 34-27

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:06 · Wake Forest 3, Syracuse 0Wake Forest's win chance rose from 71% to 73%.Sciba 22-yd field goal, Wake Forest goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q1 8:28 · Wake Forest 3, Syracuse 7Wake Forest's win chance fell from 63% to 57%.Tucker 6-yd TD run, Syracuse goes ahead 7-3
  3. 3Q3 4:32 · Wake Forest 26, Syracuse 21Wake Forest's win chance rose from 68% to 80%.Hartman 69-yd TD pass to Perry, (Two-Point Conversion failed )
  4. 4Q3 2:23 · Wake Forest 26, Syracuse 27Wake Forest's win chance fell from 74% to 56%.Tucker 14-yd TD run, two-point try fails, Syracuse goes ahead 27-26
  5. 5Q4 3:28 · Wake Forest 34, Syracuse 27Wake Forest's win chance rose from 47% to 89%.Beal-Smith 10-yd TD run, two-point try good, Wake Forest goes ahead 34-27
  6. 6Q4 0:21 · Wake Forest 34, Syracuse 34Wake Forest's win chance fell from 82% to 66%.Shrader 28-yd TD pass to Tucker, ties it 34-34
  7. 7OT1 · Wake Forest 34, Syracuse 37Wake Forest's win chance fell from 66% to 57%.Szmyt 38-yd field goal, Syracuse goes ahead 37-34
  8. 8OT1 · Wake Forest 40, Syracuse 37Wake Forest's win chance rose from 57% to 100%.Hartman 22-yd TD pass to Perry

Wake Forest's lowest chance to win was 26 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 3:28 left in the 4th quarter, Wake Forest's chance to win went from 47 percent to 89 percent when Wake Forest scored a touchdown.

The score went from Wake Forest 26, Syracuse 27 to Wake Forest 34, Syracuse 27.

The play: Beal-Smith 10-yd TD run, two-point try good, Wake Forest goes ahead 34-27.

What happened next

  1. Syracuse's next game: L 14-17 vs Clemson, Oct 15

    6 days later

  2. Wake Forest's next game: W 70-56 at Army, Oct 23

    14 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 9, 2021: Wake Forest 45, Syracuse 35, Nov 19, 2022

    about 13 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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