Regular season ·

Georgia Southern beat App State

Georgia Southern5-324
No. 20 App State7-121Final
Thu, Oct 31 · Kidd Brewer Stadium, Boone, N.C. · Crowd 18,796 · 42°ESPNU

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

Georgia Southern beat No. 20 App State by 3 points.

App State was No. 20 in the AP poll before the game; Georgia Southern was not ranked.

How the game turned

Georgia Southern aheadApp State aheadBiggest swingLow: 14%

Q3 13:22 Georgia Southern 17, App State 7

Georgia Southern 65% to win

Kennedy 68-yd TD run, Georgia Southern leads 17-7

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 4:03 · Georgia Southern 7, App State 0Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 29% to 37%.Kennedy 2-yd TD run, Georgia Southern goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q3 13:22 · Georgia Southern 17, App State 7Georgia Southern's win chance rose from 39% to 65%.Kennedy 68-yd TD run, Georgia Southern leads 17-7
  3. 3Q4 4:47 · Georgia Southern 24, App State 21Georgia Southern's win chance fell from 87% to 66%.Thomas 9-yd TD pass to Sutton, cuts it to 24-21

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 13:22 left in the 3rd quarter, Georgia Southern's chance to win went from 39 percent to 65 percent when Georgia Southern scored a touchdown.

The score went from Georgia Southern 10, App State 7 to Georgia Southern 17, App State 7.

The play: Kennedy 68-yd TD run, Georgia Southern leads 17-7.

What happened next

  1. Georgia Southern's next game: L 28-49 at Troy, Nov 9

    9 days later
  2. App State's next game: W 20-15 at South Carolina, Nov 9

    9 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 31, 2019: App State 34, Georgia Southern 26, Dec 12, 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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