Regular season ·

California beat Stanford

California6-524
Stanford4-720Final
Sat, Nov 23 · Stanford Stadium · Crowd 48,904 · 65°PAC12

Records are after this game.

California beat Stanford by 4 points.

How the game turned

California aheadStanford aheadBiggest swingLow: 16%

Q4 1:19 California 24, Stanford 20

California 76% to win

Garbers 16-yd TD run, California goes ahead 24-20

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 13:00 · California 0, Stanford 7California's win chance fell from 39% to 32%.Mills 40-yd TD pass to Stewart, Stanford goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 11:45 · California 7, Stanford 10Sanborn 48-yd field goal, Stanford goes ahead 10-7
  3. 3Q3 2:09 · California 10, Stanford 17California's win chance fell from 35% to 21%.Scarlett 1-yd TD run, Stanford goes ahead 17-10
  4. 4Q4 7:44 · California 17, Stanford 17California's win chance rose from 24% to 45%.Garbers 18-yd TD pass to Remigio, ties it 17-17
  5. 5Q4 2:23 · California 17, Stanford 20California's win chance fell from 48% to 35%.Sanborn 44-yd field goal, Stanford goes ahead 20-17
  6. 6Q4 1:19 · California 24, Stanford 20California's win chance rose from 55% to 76%.Garbers 16-yd TD run, California goes ahead 24-20

California's lowest chance to win was 16 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 1:19 left in the 4th quarter, California's chance to win went from 55 percent to 76 percent when California scored a touchdown.

The score went from California 17, Stanford 20 to California 24, Stanford 20.

The play: Garbers 16-yd TD run, California goes ahead 24-20.

It was California's first win over Stanford since the 2009 season, after 9 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. California's next game: W 28-18 at UCLA, Nov 30

    7 days later
  2. Stanford's next game: L 24-45 vs Notre Dame, Nov 30

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 23, 2019: Stanford 24, California 23, Nov 27, 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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