Regular season ·
Cincinnati beat SMU
Records are after this game.
Cincinnati beat SMU by 6 points in overtime.
How the game turned
OT1 Cincinnati 26, SMU 20
Cincinnati 100% to win
Wiggins return TD, Cincinnati wins it 26-20
Big moments
- 1Q1 13:37 · Cincinnati 7, SMU 0Cincinnati's win chance rose from 77% to 84%.Ridder 32-yd TD pass to Lewis, Cincinnati goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q3 13:13 · Cincinnati 14, SMU 7Cincinnati's win chance rose from 74% to 86%.Ridder 32-yd TD pass to Lewis, Cincinnati goes ahead 14-7
- 3Q4 4:23 · Cincinnati 17, SMU 20Cincinnati's win chance fell from 55% to 35%.Robledo 36-yd field goal, SMU goes ahead 20-17
- 4Q4 0:00 · Cincinnati 20, SMU 20Smith 41-yd field goal, ties it 20-20
- 5OT1 · Cincinnati 26, SMU 20Cincinnati's win chance rose from 19% to 100%.Wiggins return TD, Cincinnati wins it 26-20
Cincinnati's lowest chance to win was 18 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
In overtime, Cincinnati's chance to win went from 19 percent to 99 percent when Cincinnati scored a touchdown.
The score went from Cincinnati 20, SMU 20 to Cincinnati 26, SMU 20.
The play: Wiggins return TD, Cincinnati wins it 26-20.
What happened next
Cincinnati's next game: W 42-0 vs Navy, Nov 3
7 days laterSMU's next game: W 45-31 vs Houston, Nov 3
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Oct 27, 2018: Cincinnati 42, SMU 13, Oct 24, 2020
about 24 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.