With just under five minutes remaining in the first half of Syracuse’s 30-7 win over Florida State, Eric Dungey left the game and was evaluated by trainers. He didn’t return.

After the game, SU head coach Dino Babers said his starting quarterback remained out of the game due to a “blurred vision.”

“It’s like a boxer getting thumbed in the eye or something like that,” Babers said. “He just had some blurred vision in one eye and that’s not healthy to be out there in that atmosphere if you don’t have all your faculties with you so just based off of that we just decided to make a change.”

On Dungey’s last play of the game, he rushed for six yards before diving to the ground. As the play concluded a Florida State player dove on top of Dungey. Babers said postgame that the hit and Dungey’s injury were unrelated and noted that Dungey had already been playing with impaired vision.

“I don’t know if it was a thumb or a finger, you know when you’re running the quarterback and who knows,” Babers said. “You get in some piles and things happen in piles.”

Dungey finished the game 7-of-15 for 75 yards which was accompanied by 33 rushing yards. Tommy DeVito, who threw and ran a touchdown, replaced Dungey. Syracuse scored five times with DeVito at quarterback.