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Texas beat Utah

No. 12 Utah11-310
Texas8-538Final
Tue, Dec 31 · Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas (neutral site) · Crowd 60,147 · IndoorsESPN

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

Texas beat No. 12 Utah by 28 points.

Utah was No. 12 in the last AP poll before the bowls; Texas was not ranked.

It was played at a neutral site: Alamodome, San Antonio, TX.

How the game turned

Texas aheadUtah aheadLow: 28%

Q1 10:26 Texas 3, Utah 0

Texas 38% to win

Dicker 29-yd field goal, Texas goes ahead 3-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:26 · Texas 3, Utah 0Dicker 29-yd field goal, Texas goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 13:24 · Texas 10, Utah 0Texas's win chance rose from 46% to 57%.Ehlinger 5-yd TD pass to Johnson, Texas leads 10-0
  3. 3Q3 10:30 · Texas 17, Utah 0Texas's win chance rose from 81% to 91%.Ehlinger 11-yd TD pass to Ingram, Texas leads 17-0

Texas's lowest chance to win was 28 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

Texas led after every score.

What happened next

  1. Texas finished the 2019 season 8-5.

  2. Utah finished the 2019 season 11-3, No. 12 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  3. Texas's first game of the 2020 season: W 59-3 vs UTEP, Sep 12, 2020

    about 8 months later
  4. Utah's first game of the 2020 season: L 17-33 vs USC, Nov 21, 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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