Regular season ·

Alabama beat LSU

No. 1 Alabama9-055
LSU3-517Final
Sat, Dec 5 · Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, La. · Crowd 22,349 · 51°, overcastCBS

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

No. 1 Alabama beat LSU by 38 points.

How the game turned

Alabama aheadLSU ahead

Q1 11:56 Alabama 7, LSU 0

Alabama 98% to win

Harris 14-yd TD run, Alabama goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 11:56 · Alabama 7, LSU 0Harris 14-yd TD run, Alabama goes ahead 7-0

Alabama was never below a 94 percent chance to win. 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

Alabama led after every score.

The 38-point margin is the largest in this series since 1970 in our games data, 52 meetings in all.

What happened next

  1. Alabama's next game: W 52-3 at Arkansas, Dec 12

    7 days later
  2. LSU's next game: W 37-34 at Florida, Dec 12

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Dec 5, 2020: Alabama 20, LSU 14, Nov 6, 2021

    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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