Regular season ·

SMU beat Houston

No. 17 Houston7-231
SMU4-545Final
Sat, Nov 3 · Gerald J. Ford Stadium, University Park, Texas · Crowd 23,654 · 72°, cloudyESPNU

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

SMU beat No. 17 Houston by 14 points.

Houston was No. 17 in the AP poll before the game; SMU was not ranked.

How the game turned

SMU aheadHouston aheadBiggest swingLow: 14%
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Q2 0:06 SMU 31, Houston 14

SMU 85% to win

Hicks 1-yd TD pass to Proche, SMU leads 31-14

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:45 · SMU 3, Houston 0Robledo 45-yd field goal, SMU goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 12:00 · SMU 17, Houston 14SMU's win chance fell from 46% to 32%.Hicks 1-yd TD pass to Jones, fumbled
  3. 3Q2 0:06 · SMU 31, Houston 14SMU's win chance rose from 65% to 85%.Hicks 1-yd TD pass to Proche, SMU leads 31-14

SMU's lowest chance to win was 14 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 0:06 left in the 2nd quarter, SMU's chance to win went from 65 percent to 85 percent when SMU scored a touchdown.

The score went from SMU 24, Houston 14 to SMU 31, Houston 14.

The play: Hicks 1-yd TD pass to Proche, SMU leads 31-14.

What happened next

  1. SMU's next game: W 62-50 at UConn, Nov 10

    7 days later

  2. Houston's next game: L 49-59 vs Temple, Nov 10

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 3, 2018: SMU 34, Houston 31, Oct 24, 2019

    about 12 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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