Playstation Fiesta Bowl ·
Playstation Fiesta Bowl
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 11 LSU beat No. 7 UCF by 8 points, the Playstation Fiesta Bowl.
It was played at a neutral site: State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ.
How the game turned
Q1 6:39 LSU 3, UCF 14
LSU 26% to win
Moore return TD, UCF leads 14-3
Big moments
- 1Q1 12:38 · LSU 3, UCF 0Tracy 24-yd field goal, LSU goes ahead 3-0
- 2Q1 10:56 · LSU 3, UCF 7LSU's win chance fell from 53% to 46%.McCrae 25-yd TD run, UCF goes ahead 7-3
- 3Q1 6:39 · LSU 3, UCF 14LSU's win chance fell from 50% to 26%.Moore return TD, UCF leads 14-3
- 4Q2 12:59 · LSU 17, UCF 14LSU's win chance rose from 41% to 58%.Burrow 49-yd TD pass to Dillon, LSU goes ahead 17-14
- 5Q3 12:38 · LSU 31, UCF 21LSU's win chance rose from 71% to 85%.Burrow 32-yd TD pass to Chase, LSU leads 31-21
LSU'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 6:39 left in the 1st quarter, UCF's chance to win went from 50 percent to 74 percent when UCF scored a touchdown.
The score went from LSU 3, UCF 7 to LSU 3, UCF 14.
The play: Moore return TD, UCF leads 14-3.
What happened next
LSU finished the 2018 season 10-3, No. 11 in the last AP poll before the bowls.
UCF finished the 2018 season 12-1, No. 7 in the last AP poll before the bowls.
UCF's first game of the 2019 season: W 62-0 vs Florida A&M, Aug 29, 2019
about 8 months laterLSU's first game of the 2019 season: W 55-3 vs Georgia Southern, Aug 31, 2019
about 8 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.