Regular season ·

Clemson beat Florida State

No. 2 Clemson8-059
Florida State4-410Final
Sat, Oct 27 · Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, Fla. · Crowd 68,403 · 64°, cloudyABC

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

No. 2 Clemson beat Florida State by 49 points.

How the game turned

Clemson aheadFlorida State ahead

Q2 13:19 Clemson 7, Florida State 0

Clemson 93% to win

Lawrence 7-yd TD pass to Higgins, Clemson goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 13:19 · Clemson 7, Florida State 0Clemson's win chance rose from 88% to 93%.Lawrence 7-yd TD pass to Higgins, Clemson goes ahead 7-0

Clemson was never below a 78 percent chance to win. 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

Clemson led after every score.

A margin this large, 49 points, last came in this series in the 1993 season, going by our games data since 1970.

What happened next

  1. Clemson's next game: W 77-16 vs Louisville, Nov 3

    7 days later
  2. Florida State's next game: L 28-47 at NC State, Nov 3

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 27, 2018: Clemson 45, Florida State 14, Oct 12, 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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