Regular season ·

West Virginia beat Texas

No. 12 West Virginia7-142
No. 15 Texas6-341Final
Sat, Nov 3 · DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas · Crowd 100,703 · 76°, clearFOX

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

No. 12 West Virginia beat No. 15 Texas by 1 point.

How the game turned

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Q4 0:16 West Virginia 42, Texas 41

West Virginia 99% to win

Grier 33-yd TD pass to Jennings, two-point try good, West Virginia goes ahead 42-41

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 1:50 · West Virginia 10, Texas 14West Virginia's win chance fell from 57% to 47%.Ehlinger 21-yd TD pass to Humphrey, Texas goes ahead 14-10
  2. 2Q2 14:49 · West Virginia 17, Texas 14West Virginia's win chance rose from 46% to 61%.Grier 18-yd TD pass to V
  3. 3Q2 10:04 · West Virginia 17, Texas 21West Virginia's win chance fell from 60% to 49%.Watson 5-yd TD run, Texas goes ahead 21-17
  4. 4Q2 7:36 · West Virginia 24, Texas 21West Virginia's win chance rose from 47% to 61%.Pettaway 55-yd TD run, West Virginia goes ahead 24-21
  5. 5Q2 2:40 · West Virginia 24, Texas 28West Virginia's win chance fell from 59% to 47%.Ehlinger 32-yd TD pass to Watson, Texas goes ahead 28-24
  6. 6Q4 5:40 · West Virginia 34, Texas 34West Virginia's win chance rose from 22% to 52%.Pettaway 13-yd TD run, ties it 34-34
  7. 7Q4 2:34 · West Virginia 34, Texas 41West Virginia's win chance fell from 44% to 15%.Ehlinger 48-yd TD pass to Duvernay, Texas goes ahead 41-34
  8. 8Q4 0:16 · West Virginia 42, Texas 41West Virginia's win chance rose from 21% to 99%.Grier 33-yd TD pass to Jennings, two-point try good, West Virginia goes ahead 42-41

West Virginia's lowest chance to win was 15 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 0:16 left in the 4th quarter, West Virginia's chance to win went from 21 percent to 99 percent when West Virginia scored a touchdown.

The score went from West Virginia 34, Texas 41 to West Virginia 42, Texas 41.

The play: Grier 33-yd TD pass to Jennings, two-point try good, West Virginia goes ahead 42-41.

What happened next

  1. West Virginia's next game: W 47-10 vs TCU, Nov 10

    7 days later

  2. Texas's next game: W 41-34 at Texas Tech, Nov 10

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 3, 2018: Texas 42, West Virginia 31, Oct 5, 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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