Allstate Sugar Bowl ·

Allstate Sugar Bowl

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL
No. 14 Texas10-428
No. 6 Georgia11-321Final
Tue, Jan 1 · Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, La. (neutral site) · Crowd 71,449 · IndoorsESPN

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

No. 14 Texas beat No. 6 Georgia by 7 points, the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

It was played at a neutral site: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, LA.

How the game turned

Texas aheadGeorgia aheadBiggest swingLow: 24%

Q2 14:53 Texas 17, Georgia 0

Texas 70% to win

Ehlinger 9-yd TD run, Texas leads 17-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:35 · Texas 7, Georgia 0Texas's win chance rose from 29% to 33%.Ehlinger 2-yd TD run, Texas goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 14:53 · Texas 17, Georgia 0Texas's win chance rose from 51% to 70%.Ehlinger 9-yd TD run, Texas leads 17-0

Texas's lowest chance to win was 24 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 14:53 left in the 2nd quarter, Texas's chance to win went from 51 percent to 70 percent when Texas scored a touchdown.

The score went from Texas 10, Georgia 0 to Texas 17, Georgia 0.

The play: Ehlinger 9-yd TD run, Texas leads 17-0.

What happened next

  1. Texas finished the 2018 season 10-4, No. 14 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Georgia finished the 2018 season 11-3, No. 6 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  3. Texas's first game of the 2019 season: W 45-14 vs Louisiana Tech, Aug 31, 2019

    about 8 months later
  4. Georgia's first game of the 2019 season: W 30-6 at Vanderbilt, Aug 31, 2019

    about 8 months later
  5. The teams' next meeting after Jan 1, 2019: Georgia 30, Texas 15, Oct 19, 2024

    about 6 years 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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