SYRACUSE, N.Y. — After two disheartening road losses, the weight of the world has been lifted a bit off the Syracuse Orange.

Eric Dungey threw two touchdown passes and ran for another and the Syracuse defense stymied Pittsburgh’s offense on third down as the Orange held on for a 27-24 victory Saturday.

Syracuse’s win was its first over the Panthers in five years and kept the team’s bowl hopes alive.

Syracuse (3-3, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) was coming off single-digit losses to LSU and North Carolina State.

Pitt (2-4, 0-2) had won 11 of the last 12 in the series and was 4-0 against Syracuse since both teams joined the ACC.

Pitt didn’t record its first third-down conversion until the fourth quarter and was 3 of 13.