Regular season ·

SMU beat Navy

Navy2-230
SMU1-331Final
Sat, Sep 22 · Gerald J. Ford Stadium, University Park, Texas · Crowd 17,531 · 77°, rain showerESPNN

Records are after this game.

SMU beat Navy by 1 point in overtime.

How the game turned

SMU aheadNavy aheadBiggest swing

Q2 0:11 SMU 10, Navy 7

SMU 62% to win

Nelson Smith run for 8 yds, fumbled, forced by Williams, recovered by Robinson

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 9:37 · SMU 3, Navy 0Robledo 26-yd field goal, SMU goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 13:10 · SMU 3, Navy 7SMU's win chance fell from 40% to 27%.Abey 1-yd TD run, Navy goes ahead 7-3
  3. 3Q2 4:36 · SMU 10, Navy 7SMU's win chance rose from 29% to 41%.Brown 20-yd TD pass to Roberson, SMU goes ahead 10-7
  4. 4Q3 6:38 · SMU 10, Navy 14SMU's win chance fell from 35% to 32%.Lewis 25-yd TD pass to Cooper, Navy goes ahead 14-10
  5. 5Q4 12:25 · SMU 23, Navy 14SMU's win chance rose from 62% to 84%.Brown 2-yd TD pass to Gailliard, blocked, SMU leads 23-14

SMU's lowest chance to win was 23 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 0:11 left in the 2nd quarter, SMU's chance to win went from 36 percent to 62 percent on a fumble.

The score stayed SMU 10, Navy 7.

It was SMU's first win over Navy since the 1998 season, after 8 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. SMU's next game: W 63-27 vs Houston Christian, Sep 29

    7 days later
  2. Navy's next game: L 7-35 at Air Force, Oct 6

    14 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Sep 22, 2018: Navy 35, SMU 28, Nov 23, 2019

    about 14 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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