Regular season ·

Utah beat Stanford

Utah3-240
No. 14 Stanford4-221Final
Sat, Oct 6 · Stanford Stadium · Crowd 37,244 · 68°ESPN

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

Utah beat No. 14 Stanford by 19 points.

Stanford was No. 14 in the AP poll before the game; Utah was not ranked.

How the game turned

Utah aheadStanford aheadBiggest swingLow: 33%
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Q2 10:50 Utah 14, Stanford 0

Utah 79% to win

Johnson interception return TD, Utah leads 14-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 0:47 · Utah 7, Stanford 0Utah's win chance rose from 50% to 60%.Moss 7-yd TD run, Utah goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 10:50 · Utah 14, Stanford 0Utah's win chance rose from 62% to 79%.Johnson interception return TD, Utah leads 14-0
  3. 3Q2 2:56 · Utah 21, Stanford 0Utah's win chance rose from 82% to 93%.Moss 35-yd TD run, Utah leads 21-0
  4. 4Q4 7:12 · Utah 37, Stanford 21Utah's win chance rose from 85% to 97%.Huntley 57-yd TD pass to Nacua, Utah leads 37-21

Utah's lowest chance to win was 33 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 10:50 left in the 2nd quarter, Utah's chance to win went from 62 percent to 79 percent when Utah scored a touchdown.

The score went from Utah 7, Stanford 0 to Utah 14, Stanford 0.

The play: Johnson interception return TD, Utah leads 14-0.

What happened next

  1. Stanford was No. 14 before the game and out of the next AP poll.

  2. Utah's next game: W 42-10 vs Arizona, Oct 12

    6 days later

  3. Stanford's next game: W 20-13 at Arizona State, Oct 18

    12 days later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Oct 6, 2018: Utah 52, Stanford 7, Nov 5, 2021

    about 3 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.

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