Regular season ·

Memphis beat SMU

No. 15 SMU8-148
No. 24 Memphis8-154Final
Sat, Nov 2 · Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis, Tenn. · Crowd 59,506 · 52°, clearABC

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

No. 24 Memphis beat No. 15 SMU by 6 points.

How the game turned

Memphis aheadSMU aheadLow: 49%
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Q2 5:44 Memphis 20, SMU 14

Memphis 73% to win

White 50-yd TD pass to Gibson, Memphis goes ahead 20-14

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 5:49 · Memphis 0, SMU 7Memphis's win chance fell from 56% to 49%.Buechele 16-yd TD pass to Granson, SMU goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 3:34 · Memphis 7, SMU 7Memphis's win chance rose from 49% to 60%.Gainwell 14-yd TD run, ties it 7-7
  3. 3Q2 13:38 · Memphis 10, SMU 7Patterson 30-yd field goal, Memphis goes ahead 10-7
  4. 4Q2 11:30 · Memphis 10, SMU 14Memphis's win chance fell from 68% to 55%.Jones 2-yd TD run, SMU goes ahead 14-10
  5. 5Q2 5:44 · Memphis 20, SMU 14Memphis's win chance rose from 62% to 73%.White 50-yd TD pass to Gibson, Memphis goes ahead 20-14

Memphis's lowest chance to win was 49 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

Memphis took the lead for good with 5:44 left in the 2nd quarter, Memphis 20, SMU 14.

What happened next

  1. SMU went from No. 15 to No. 23 in the next AP poll.

  2. SMU's next game: W 59-51 vs East Carolina, Nov 9

    7 days later

  3. Memphis's next game: W 45-27 at Houston, Nov 16

    14 days later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Nov 2, 2019: SMU 30, Memphis 27, Oct 3, 2020

    about 11 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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