Regular season ·

Pittsburgh beat North Carolina

North Carolina5-523
Pittsburgh8-230Final
Thu, Nov 11 · Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, Pa. · Crowd 41,687 · 62°, overcastESPN

Records are after this game.

Pittsburgh beat North Carolina by 7 points in overtime.

How the game turned

Pittsburgh aheadNorth Carolina aheadBiggest swing

Q4 5:26 Pittsburgh 23, North Carolina 20

Pittsburgh 59% to win

Pickett intercepted by Gemmel

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 11:32 · Pittsburgh 0, North Carolina 0Pittsburgh's win chance fell from 74% to 64%.Pickett incomplete to Addison, turnover on downs
  2. 2Q1 8:00 · Pittsburgh 7, North Carolina 0Pittsburgh's win chance rose from 73% to 78%.Davis 2-yd TD run, Pittsburgh goes ahead 7-0
  3. 3Q4 5:26 · Pittsburgh 23, North Carolina 20Pittsburgh's win chance fell from 78% to 59%.Pickett intercepted by Gemmel
  4. 4Q4 0:57 · Pittsburgh 23, North Carolina 23Atkins 20-yd field goal, ties it 23-23
  5. 5OT1 · Pittsburgh 30, North Carolina 23Pittsburgh's win chance rose from 59% to 67%.Pickett 11-yd TD pass to Krull, Pittsburgh goes ahead 30-23

Pittsburgh's lowest chance to win was 50 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 5:26 left in the 4th quarter, North Carolina's chance to win went from 22 percent to 41 percent on an interception.

The score stayed Pittsburgh 23, North Carolina 20.

The play: Pickett intercepted by Gemmel.

What happened next

  1. Pittsburgh's next game: W 48-38 vs Virginia, Nov 20

    9 days later
  2. North Carolina's next game: W 34-14 vs Wofford, Nov 20

    9 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 11, 2021: North Carolina 42, Pittsburgh 24, Oct 29, 2022

    about 12 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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