{"id":454047,"date":"2026-10-02T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454047\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:00:09","slug":"tayven-jackson-leads-north-texas-past-tulsa-45-44-in-ot-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454047\/","title":{"rendered":"Tayven Jackson leads North Texas past Tulsa 45-44 in OT thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/TULSA\/tulsa-golden-hurricane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TULSA<\/a>, Okla. (AP)  Tayven Jackson threw a season-high four touchdown passes and added a 1-yard rushing TD in overtime, Jahiem White had 219 yards rushing and a touchdown, and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/NTEXAS\/north-texas-mean-green\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Texas<\/a> beat Tulsa 45-44 on Thursday night in the American Conference opener for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was 24-of-39 passing for 332 yards with two interceptions. Max Reese had five receptions for 101 yards and a touchdown and Justin Stevenson had two TD receptions for the Mean Green (3-2).<\/p>\n<p>Jackson hit Grayson O&#8217;Bara for a 22-yard gain on the first play of overtime and scored on a short run three plays later.<\/p>\n<p>Tulsa&#8217;s Damari Alston ran for a 2-yard touchdown on the second possession of OT, but the 2-point conversion attempt was short.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor Hayes threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores for the Golden Hurricane (3-2).<\/p>\n<p>Jackson found Koch for a 39-yard gain before White scored on a 14-yard run that made it a two-touchdown game with 6:13 remaining in the third.<\/p>\n<p>White has 10 total touchdowns (eight rushing, two receiving) this season, second most in the Football Bowl Subdivision behind Jadan Baugh&#8217;s 11 for Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes hit David Wells Jr. for touchdown passes of 5 yards late in the third and 4 yards with 8:17 left in the game to make it 31-all.<\/p>\n<p>After Jackson connected with Stevenson for 14-yard touchdown that put UNT back in front, Hayes scored on a 1-yard run with 31 seconds left in regulation to force overtime.<\/p>\n<p>North Texas: Hosts Charlotte on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Tulsa: Plays Oct. 10 at Navy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TULSA, Okla. (AP) Tayven Jackson threw a season-high four touchdown passes and added a 1-yard rushing TD in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,14660,27,29,28,30019],"class_list":["post-454047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-north-texas-mean-green","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tulsa-golden-hurricane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}