Regular season ·

Arizona State beat USC

Arizona State4-438
USC4-435Final
Sat, Oct 27 · Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum · Crowd 47,406 · 72°, fairABC

Records are after this game.

Arizona State beat USC by 3 points.

How the game turned

Arizona State aheadUSC aheadBiggest swing

Q3 2:54 Arizona State 31, USC 28

Arizona State 58% to win

Harry return TD, Arizona State goes ahead 31-28

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:52 · Arizona State 0, USC 7Arizona State's win chance fell from 43% to 28%.Vaughns return TD, USC goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 6:22 · Arizona State 14, USC 7Arizona State's win chance rose from 46% to 62%.Benjamin 3-yd TD run, Arizona State goes ahead 14-7
  3. 3Q2 6:12 · Arizona State 24, USC 7Arizona State's win chance rose from 73% to 88%.Benjamin 49-yd TD run, Arizona State leads 24-7
  4. 4Q3 10:24 · Arizona State 24, USC 28Arizona State's win chance fell from 62% to 37%.Vaughns 36-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC goes ahead 28-24
  5. 5Q3 2:54 · Arizona State 31, USC 28Arizona State's win chance rose from 28% to 58%.Harry return TD, Arizona State goes ahead 31-28

Arizona State's lowest chance to win was 19 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 2:54 left in the 3rd quarter, Arizona State's chance to win went from 27 percent to 58 percent when Arizona State scored a touchdown.

The score went from Arizona State 24, USC 28 to Arizona State 31, USC 28.

The play: Harry return TD, Arizona State goes ahead 31-28.

It was Arizona State's first win over USC since the 2014 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Arizona State's next game: W 38-20 vs Utah, Nov 3

    7 days later
  2. USC's next game: W 38-21 at Oregon State, Nov 3

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 27, 2018: USC 31, Arizona State 26, Nov 9, 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.

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