Regular season ·

Virginia beat Virginia Tech

No. 23 Virginia Tech8-430
Virginia9-339Final
Fri, Nov 29 · Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, Va. · Crowd 52,619 · 49°ABC

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

Virginia beat No. 23 Virginia Tech by 9 points.

Virginia Tech was No. 23 in the AP poll before the game; Virginia was not ranked.

How the game turned

Virginia aheadVirginia Tech aheadLow: 14%
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Q4 1:23 Virginia 33, Virginia Tech 30

Virginia 72% to win

Delaney 48-yd field goal, Virginia goes ahead 33-30

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:14 · Virginia 6, Virginia Tech 0Virginia's win chance rose from 53% to 58%.Perkins 39-yd TD run, Virginia goes ahead 6-0
  2. 2Q3 4:42 · Virginia 13, Virginia Tech 20Virginia's win chance fell from 32% to 18%.McClease 1-yd TD run, Virginia Tech goes ahead 20-13
  3. 3Q3 0:48 · Virginia 20, Virginia Tech 27Virginia's win chance fell from 51% to 17%.Hooker 61-yd TD pass to Turner, Virginia Tech goes ahead 27-20
  4. 4Q4 10:58 · Virginia 27, Virginia Tech 30Virginia's win chance fell from 50% to 30%.Johnson 47-yd field goal, Virginia Tech goes ahead 30-27
  5. 5Q4 7:35 · Virginia 30, Virginia Tech 30Virginia's win chance rose from 32% to 49%.Delaney 25-yd field goal, ties it 30-30
  6. 6Q4 1:23 · Virginia 33, Virginia Tech 30Virginia's win chance rose from 39% to 72%.Delaney 48-yd field goal, Virginia goes ahead 33-30

Virginia'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.

How the lead changed

Virginia took the lead for good with 1:23 left in the 4th quarter, Virginia 33, Virginia Tech 30.

It was Virginia's first win over Virginia Tech since the 2003 season, after 15 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Virginia's next game: L 17-62 vs Clemson, Dec 7

    8 days later

  2. Virginia Tech's next game: L 30-37 vs Kentucky, Dec 31

    32 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 29, 2019: Virginia Tech 33, Virginia 15, Dec 12, 2020

    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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