Regular season ·
Tennessee beat Auburn
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
Tennessee beat No. 21 Auburn by 6 points.
Auburn was No. 21 in the AP poll before the game; Tennessee was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q3 3:25 Tennessee 20, Auburn 17
Tennessee 39% to win
Guarantano 25-yd TD pass to Jennings, Tennessee goes ahead 20-17
Big moments
- 1Q1 9:44 · Tennessee 0, Auburn 7Tennessee's win chance fell from 11% to 10%.Cox 1-yd TD run, Auburn goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 10:44 · Tennessee 10, Auburn 10Tennessee's win chance rose from 13% to 23%.Guarantano 42-yd TD pass to Chandler, ties it 10-10
- 3Q2 3:26 · Tennessee 10, Auburn 17Tennessee's win chance fell from 17% to 13%.Stidham 76-yd TD pass to Schwartz, Auburn goes ahead 17-10
- 4Q3 3:25 · Tennessee 20, Auburn 17Tennessee's win chance rose from 25% to 39%.Guarantano 25-yd TD pass to Jennings, Tennessee goes ahead 20-17
Tennessee's lowest chance to win was 6 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.
How the lead changed
Tennessee took the lead for good with 3:25 left in the 3rd quarter, Tennessee 20, Auburn 17.
It was Tennessee's first win over Auburn since the 1999 season, after 6 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Tennessee's next game: L 21-58 vs Alabama, Oct 20
7 days laterAuburn's next game: W 31-16 at Ole Miss, Oct 20
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Oct 13, 2018: Auburn 30, Tennessee 17, Nov 21, 2020
about 2 years later
Related pages
Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.