Regular season ·

USC beat Utah

No. 10 Utah3-123
USC3-130Final
Fri, Sep 20 · Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum · Crowd 55,719 · 74°, fairFS1

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

USC beat No. 10 Utah by 7 points.

Utah was No. 10 in the AP poll before the game; USC was not ranked.

How the game turned

USC aheadUtah aheadBiggest swingLow: 36%
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Q3 9:54 USC 21, Utah 10

USC 78% to win

Fink 77-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC leads 21-10

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:57 · USC 7, Utah 0USC's win chance rose from 49% to 55%.Fink 29-yd TD pass to Vaughns, USC goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 10:39 · USC 7, Utah 7USC's win chance fell from 54% to 41%.Henry-Cole 17-yd TD run, ties it 7-7
  3. 3Q1 8:11 · USC 14, Utah 7USC's win chance rose from 46% to 57%.Fink 31-yd TD pass to St. Brown
  4. 4Q3 9:54 · USC 21, Utah 10USC's win chance rose from 58% to 78%.Fink 77-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC leads 21-10
  5. 5Q3 3:47 · USC 21, Utah 17USC's win chance fell from 81% to 67%.Huntley 2-yd TD pass to Fotheringham, cuts it to 21-17

USC's lowest chance to win was 36 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 9:54 left in the 3rd quarter, USC's chance to win went from 58 percent to 78 percent when USC scored a touchdown.

The score went from USC 14, Utah 10 to USC 21, Utah 10.

The play: Fink 77-yd TD pass to Pittman, USC leads 21-10.

What happened next

  1. Utah went from No. 10 to No. 19 in the next AP poll.

  2. USC's next game: L 14-28 at Washington, Sep 28

    8 days later

  3. Utah's next game: W 38-13 vs Washington State, Sep 28

    8 days later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Sep 20, 2019: USC 33, Utah 17, Nov 21, 2020

    about 14 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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