Regular season ·
Colorado beat Nebraska
Records are after this game.
Colorado beat Nebraska by 5 points.
How the game turned
Q4 1:06 Colorado 33, Nebraska 28
Colorado 78% to win
Montez 40-yd TD pass to Shenault, two-point try fails, Colorado goes ahead 33-28
Big moments
- 1Q1 9:00 · Colorado 7, Nebraska 0Colorado's win chance rose from 53% to 62%.Montez 3-yd TD pass to MacIntyre, Colorado goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 10:15 · Colorado 14, Nebraska 14Colorado's win chance fell from 64% to 52%.Ozigbo 8-yd TD run, ties it 14-14
- 3Q2 2:24 · Colorado 14, Nebraska 21Colorado's win chance fell from 39% to 26%.Martinez 3-yd TD run, Nebraska goes ahead 21-14
- 4Q3 5:35 · Colorado 20, Nebraska 28Colorado's win chance fell from 35% to 19%.Martinez 57-yd TD pass to Spielman, Nebraska leads 28-20
- 5Q4 1:06 · Colorado 33, Nebraska 28Colorado's win chance rose from 39% to 78%.Montez 40-yd TD pass to Shenault, two-point try fails, Colorado goes ahead 33-28
Colorado's lowest chance to win was 13 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.
The biggest swing
With 1:06 left in the 4th quarter, Colorado's chance to win went from 39 percent to 78 percent when Colorado scored a touchdown.
The score went from Colorado 27, Nebraska 28 to Colorado 33, Nebraska 28.
The play: Montez 40-yd TD pass to Shenault, two-point try fails, Colorado goes ahead 33-28.
It was Colorado's first win over Nebraska since the 2007 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Colorado's next game: W 45-14 vs New Hampshire, Sep 15
7 days laterNebraska's next game: L 19-24 vs Troy, Sep 15
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Sep 8, 2018: Colorado 34, Nebraska 31, Sep 7, 2019
about 12 months 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.