Overview

• The ACC confirmed Patterson, an official since 2002, is no longer on its roster and said officiating crews were reassigned after his abrupt termination.
• The controversy stemmed from a late-first-half sequence in which a second-down play was wiped out after Patterson announced replay had buzzed before the previous snap.
• Sources told ESPN there was no visible on-field signal of a pre-snap buzz and said the directive to initiate the review came from the ACC command center.
• An ACC spokesperson acknowledged the timing was not ideal and said the handling was addressed internally, while noting the game was not part of the league’s review-transparency program.
• ESPN rules analyst Bill LeMonnier said the errors originated with replay officials rather than the on-field crew, and Syracuse later converted the drive into a field goal and won 27-20 in overtime.