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Georgia Southern beat South Alabama

Georgia Southern2-320
South Alabama1-517Final
Thu, Oct 3 · Ladd Peebles Stadium, Mobile, Ala. · Crowd 20,013 · 88°, fairESPNU

Records are after this game.

Georgia Southern beat South Alabama 20-17 in 2 overtimes, October 3, 2019.

How the game turned

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Q4 0:20 Georgia Southern 17, South Alabama 17

Georgia Southern 59% to win

Kennedy 1-yd TD run, ties it 17-17

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 11:03 · Georgia Southern 3, South Alabama 0Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 75% to 79%.Bass 46-yd field goal, Georgia Southern goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 10:52 · Georgia Southern 3, South Alabama 7Georgia Southern's win chance fell from 79% to 63%.Johnson 75-yd TD pass to Baker, South Alabama goes ahead 7-3
  3. 3Q2 1:11 · Georgia Southern 10, South Alabama 7Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 66% to 75%.King 4-yd TD run
  4. 4Q3 5:41 · Georgia Southern 10, South Alabama 14Georgia Southern's win chance fell from 83% to 51%.Johnson 60-yd TD pass to Tolbert, South Alabama goes ahead 14-10
  5. 5Q4 0:20 · Georgia Southern 17, South Alabama 17Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 21% to 59%.Kennedy 1-yd TD run, ties it 17-17
  6. 6OT2 · Georgia Southern 20, South Alabama 17Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 66% to 100%.Bass 37-yd field goal, Georgia Southern wins it 20-17

Georgia Southern's lowest chance to win was 14 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 0:20 left in the 4th quarter, Georgia Southern's chance to win went from 21 percent to 59 percent when Georgia Southern scored a touchdown.

The score went from Georgia Southern 10, South Alabama 17 to Georgia Southern 17, South Alabama 17.

The play: Kennedy 1-yd TD run, ties it 17-17.

What happened next

  1. South Alabama's next game: L 13-37 at Troy, Oct 16

    13 days later

  2. Georgia Southern's next game: W 30-27 vs Coastal Carolina, Oct 19

    16 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 3, 2019: Georgia Southern 24, South Alabama 17, Oct 29, 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.

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