Regular season ·

Oklahoma beat West Virginia

No. 6 Oklahoma11-159
No. 12 West Virginia8-356Final
Fri, Nov 23 · Milan Puskar Stadium, Morgantown, W.Va. · Crowd 60,713 · 41°ESPN

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

No. 6 Oklahoma beat No. 12 West Virginia by 3 points.

How the game turned

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Q3 0:17 Oklahoma 45, West Virginia 49

Oklahoma 31% to win

Grier 75-yd TD pass to Jennings, West Virginia goes ahead 49-45

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 7:12 · Oklahoma 21, West Virginia 14Oklahoma's win chance rose from 62% to 74%.Sermon 1-yd TD run, Oklahoma goes ahead 21-14
  2. 2Q2 3:30 · Oklahoma 28, West Virginia 21Oklahoma's win chance rose from 62% to 75%.Brooks 68-yd TD run, Oklahoma goes ahead 28-21
  3. 3Q3 5:52 · Oklahoma 38, West Virginia 35Oklahoma's win chance rose from 59% to 69%.Seibert 37-yd field goal, Oklahoma goes ahead 38-35
  4. 4Q3 1:52 · Oklahoma 38, West Virginia 42Oklahoma's win chance fell from 70% to 39%.Grier 1-yd TD run, West Virginia goes ahead 42-38
  5. 5Q3 0:35 · Oklahoma 45, West Virginia 42Oklahoma's win chance rose from 30% to 67%.Murray 45-yd TD pass to Brown, Oklahoma goes ahead 45-42
  6. 6Q3 0:17 · Oklahoma 45, West Virginia 49Oklahoma's win chance fell from 74% to 31%.Grier 75-yd TD pass to Jennings, West Virginia goes ahead 49-45
  7. 7Q4 11:19 · Oklahoma 52, West Virginia 49Oklahoma's win chance rose from 34% to 52%.Murray 2-yd TD pass to Calcaterra, Oklahoma goes ahead 52-49

Oklahoma's lowest chance to win was 30 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 0:17 left in the 3rd quarter, West Virginia's chance to win went from 26 percent to 69 percent when West Virginia scored a touchdown.

The score went from Oklahoma 45, West Virginia 42 to Oklahoma 45, West Virginia 49.

The play: Grier 75-yd TD pass to Jennings, West Virginia goes ahead 49-45.

What happened next

  1. Oklahoma's next game: W 39-27 vs Texas, Dec 1

    8 days later

  2. West Virginia's next game: L 18-34 vs Syracuse in the Camping World Bowl, Dec 28

    35 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 23, 2018: Oklahoma 52, West Virginia 14, Oct 19, 2019

    about 11 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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