{"id":454241,"date":"2026-10-02T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:14:08","slug":"north-texas-defeats-tulsa-45-44-in-thursday-night-ot-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454241\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas Defeats Tulsa 45-44 in Thursday Night OT Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tayven Jackson<\/a> threw a season-high four touchdown passes and added a 1-yard rushing TD in overtime, Jahiem White<\/a> had 219 yards rushing and a touchdown, and North Texas beat Tulsa 45-44 on Thursday night in the American Conference opener for both teams.<\/p>\n

Jackson was 24-of-39 passing for 332 yards with two interceptions. Max Reese<\/a> had five receptions for 101 yards and a touchdown and Justin Stevenson<\/a> had two TD receptions for the Mean Green (3-2).<\/p>\n

Jackson hit Grayson O’Bara<\/a> for a 22-yard gain on the first play of overtime and scored on a short run three plays later.<\/p>\n

Tulsa’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

Baylor Hayes threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores for the Golden Hurricane (3-2).<\/p>\n

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

White has 10 total touchdowns (eight rushing, two receiving) this season, second most in the Football Bowl Subdivision behind Jadan Baugh’s 11 for Florida.<\/p>\n

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

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

Up next, North Texas hosts Charlotte on Oct. 10, while Tulsa travels to Navy on the same day.<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-454241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454241","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=454241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}