Regular season ·
BYU beat Boise State
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
BYU beat No. 14 Boise State by 3 points.
Boise State was No. 14 in the AP poll before the game; BYU was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q3 13:03 BYU 14, Boise State 10
BYU 52% to win
Finau 46-yd TD run, BYU goes ahead 14-10
Big moments
- 1Q1 10:28 · BYU 0, Boise State 7BYU's win chance fell from 26% to 19%.Thomas 12-yd TD run, Boise State goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 0:28 · BYU 7, Boise State 10Sachse 38-yd field goal, Boise State goes ahead 10-7
- 3Q3 13:03 · BYU 14, Boise State 10BYU's win chance rose from 30% to 52%.Finau 46-yd TD run, BYU goes ahead 14-10
- 4Q3 4:49 · BYU 21, Boise State 10BYU's win chance rose from 61% to 80%.Romney 27-yd TD pass to Bushman, BYU leads 21-10
- 5Q4 3:17 · BYU 28, Boise State 25BYU's win chance fell from 89% to 67%.Cord 5-yd TD pass to Butler, cuts it to 28-25
BYU's lowest chance to win was 12 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 13:03 left in the 3rd quarter, BYU's chance to win went from 30 percent to 52 percent when BYU scored a touchdown.
The score went from BYU 7, Boise State 10 to BYU 14, Boise State 10.
The play: Finau 46-yd TD run, BYU goes ahead 14-10.
It was BYU's first win over Boise State since the 2015 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Boise State went from No. 14 to No. 22 in the next AP poll.
BYU's next game: W 42-14 at Utah State, Nov 2
14 days laterBoise State's next game: W 52-42 at San José State, Nov 2
14 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Oct 19, 2019: BYU 51, Boise State 17, Nov 6, 2020
about 13 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.