Regular season ·

Georgia Southern beat App State

No. 25 App State5-214
Georgia Southern7-134Final
Thu, Oct 25 · Allen E. Paulson Stadium, Statesboro, Ga. · Crowd 19,252 · 61°ESPNU

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

Georgia Southern beat No. 25 App State by 20 points.

App State was No. 25 in the AP poll before the game; Georgia Southern was not ranked.

How the game turned

Georgia Southern aheadApp State aheadBiggest swing

Q2 14:37 Georgia Southern 7, App State 0

Georgia Southern 43% to win

Werts 57-yd TD pass to Anderson, Georgia Southern goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 14:37 · Georgia Southern 7, App State 0Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 14% to 43%.Werts 57-yd TD pass to Anderson, Georgia Southern goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 9:53 · Georgia Southern 14, App State 7Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 26% to 45%.Fields 10-yd TD run, Georgia Southern goes ahead 14-7
  3. 3Q3 11:40 · Georgia Southern 17, App State 7Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 60% to 77%.Fields 32-yd run

Georgia Southern'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 14:37 left in the 2nd quarter, Georgia Southern's chance to win went from 14 percent to 43 percent when Georgia Southern scored a touchdown.

The score went from Georgia Southern 0, App State 0 to Georgia Southern 7, App State 0.

The play: Werts 57-yd TD pass to Anderson, Georgia Southern goes ahead 7-0.

It was Georgia Southern's first win over App State since the 2014 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Georgia Southern's next game: L 25-44 at UL Monroe, Nov 3

    9 days later
  2. App State's next game: W 23-7 at Coastal Carolina, Nov 3

    9 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 25, 2018: Georgia Southern 24, App State 21, Oct 31, 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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