Regular season ·
Georgia Tech beat North Carolina
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
Georgia Tech beat No. 21 North Carolina by 23 points.
North Carolina was No. 21 in the AP poll before the game; Georgia Tech was not ranked.
It was played at a neutral site: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA.
How the game turned
Q3 10:53 Georgia Tech 20, North Carolina 7
Georgia Tech 74% to win
Sims 1-yd TD run, Georgia Tech leads 20-7
Big moments
- 1Q1 10:23 · Georgia Tech 0, North Carolina 7Georgia Tech's win chance fell from 16% to 10%.Howell 23-yd TD run, North Carolina goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 2:41 · Georgia Tech 13, North Carolina 7Georgia Tech's win chance rose from 27% to 37%.Sims 11-yd TD run, Georgia Tech goes ahead 13-7
- 3Q3 10:53 · Georgia Tech 20, North Carolina 7Georgia Tech's win chance rose from 55% to 74%.Sims 1-yd TD run, Georgia Tech leads 20-7
Georgia Tech's lowest chance to win was 4 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 10:53 left in the 3rd quarter, Georgia Tech's chance to win went from 54 percent to 74 percent when Georgia Tech scored a touchdown.
The score went from Georgia Tech 13, North Carolina 7 to Georgia Tech 20, North Carolina 7.
The play: Sims 1-yd TD run, Georgia Tech leads 20-7.
What happened next
Georgia Tech's next game: L 21-52 vs Pittsburgh, Oct 2
7 days laterNorth Carolina's next game: W 38-7 vs Duke, Oct 2
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Sep 25, 2021: Georgia Tech 21, North Carolina 17, Nov 19, 2022
about 14 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.