Regular season ·
South Carolina beat Auburn
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
South Carolina beat Auburn by 8 points.
How the game turned
Q3 0:54 South Carolina 27, Auburn 19
South Carolina 79% to win
Harris 8-yd TD run, South Carolina leads 27-19
Big moments
- 1Q1 8:32 · South Carolina 0, Auburn 3Carlson 35-yd field goal, Auburn goes ahead 3-0
- 2Q3 6:31 · South Carolina 20, Auburn 19South Carolina's win chance rose from 35% to 44%.Hill 10-yd TD pass to Smith, two-point try fails, South Carolina goes ahead 20-19
- 3Q3 0:54 · South Carolina 27, Auburn 19South Carolina's win chance rose from 53% to 79%.Harris 8-yd TD run, South Carolina leads 27-19
South Carolina's lowest chance to win was 13 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 0:54 left in the 3rd quarter, South Carolina's chance to win went from 53 percent to 79 percent when South Carolina scored a touchdown.
The score went from South Carolina 20, Auburn 19 to South Carolina 27, Auburn 19.
The play: Harris 8-yd TD run, South Carolina leads 27-19.
It was South Carolina's first win over Auburn since 1970 in our games data, after 8 straight losses in the series.
What happened next
South Carolina's next game: L 24-52 at LSU, Oct 24
7 days laterAuburn's next game: W 35-28 at Ole Miss, Oct 24
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Oct 17, 2020: South Carolina 21, Auburn 17, Nov 20, 2021
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.