Regular season ·

BYU beat USC

No. 24 USC2-127
BYU2-130Final
Sat, Sep 14 · LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, Utah · Crowd 62,546 · 74°ABC

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

BYU beat No. 24 USC by 3 points in overtime.

USC was No. 24 in the AP poll before the game; BYU was not ranked.

How the game turned

BYU aheadUSC aheadBiggest swing
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Q4 10:45 BYU 17, USC 24

BYU 11% to win

Slovis 30-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC goes ahead 24-17

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:39 · BYU 0, USC 7BYU's win chance fell from 36% to 23%.Slovis 8-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 3:01 · BYU 10, USC 7Oldroyd 23-yd field goal, BYU goes ahead 10-7
  3. 3Q2 10:19 · BYU 17, USC 10BYU's win chance rose from 38% to 53%.Wilson 30-yd TD pass to Milne, BYU goes ahead 17-10
  4. 4Q4 10:45 · BYU 17, USC 24BYU's win chance fell from 34% to 11%.Slovis 30-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC goes ahead 24-17
  5. 5Q4 5:41 · BYU 27, USC 24BYU's win chance rose from 38% to 58%.Wilson 16-yd TD run, BYU goes ahead 27-24
  6. 6Q4 1:43 · BYU 27, USC 27McGrath 52-yd field goal, ties it 27-27
  7. 7OT1 · BYU 30, USC 27Oldroyd 43-yd field goal, BYU goes ahead 30-27

BYU's lowest chance to win was 11 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 10:45 left in the 4th quarter, USC's chance to win went from 66 percent to 89 percent when USC scored a touchdown.

The score went from BYU 17, USC 17 to BYU 17, USC 24.

The play: Slovis 30-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC goes ahead 24-17.

What happened next

  1. USC's next game: W 30-23 vs Utah, Sep 20

    6 days later

  2. BYU's next game: L 19-45 vs Washington, Sep 21

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Sep 14, 2019: BYU 35, USC 31, Nov 27, 2021

    about 2 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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