Regular season ·

SMU beat Tulane

No. 17 SMU5-037
Tulane2-334Final
Fri, Oct 16 · Yulman Stadium, New Orleans, La. · 67°, clearESPN

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

No. 17 SMU beat Tulane by 3 points in overtime.

How the game turned

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OT1 SMU 37, Tulane 34

SMU 100% to win

Naggar 34-yd field goal, SMU wins it 37-34

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 6:26 · SMU 10, Tulane 14SMU's win chance fell from 65% to 54%.Pratt 1-yd TD run, Tulane goes ahead 14-10
  2. 2Q2 2:43 · SMU 17, Tulane 14SMU's win chance rose from 56% to 71%.Buechele 10-yd TD pass to Rice, SMU goes ahead 17-14
  3. 3Q3 11:38 · SMU 17, Tulane 24Huderson 22-yd TD run, Tulane goes ahead 24-17
  4. 4Q3 3:17 · SMU 27, Tulane 24SMU's win chance rose from 60% to 69%.Naggar 33-yd field goal, SMU goes ahead 27-24
  5. 5Q4 12:59 · SMU 27, Tulane 31SMU's win chance fell from 53% to 37%.Pratt 7-yd TD run, Tulane goes ahead 31-27
  6. 6Q4 7:12 · SMU 34, Tulane 31SMU's win chance rose from 41% to 72%.Buechele 10-yd TD pass to Gray, SMU goes ahead 34-31
  7. 7Q4 1:30 · SMU 34, Tulane 34Glover 27-yd field goal, ties it 34-34
  8. 8OT1 · SMU 37, Tulane 34SMU's win chance rose from 58% to 100%.Naggar 34-yd field goal, SMU wins it 37-34

SMU's lowest chance to win was 25 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

In overtime, SMU's chance to win went from 58 percent to 99 percent when SMU kicked a field goal.

The score went from SMU 34, Tulane 34 to SMU 37, Tulane 34.

The play: Naggar 34-yd field goal, SMU wins it 37-34.

What happened next

  1. SMU's next game: L 13-42 vs Cincinnati, Oct 24

    8 days later

  2. Tulane's next game: L 34-51 at UCF, Oct 24

    8 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 16, 2020: SMU 55, Tulane 26, Oct 21, 2021

    about 12 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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