Regular season ·
NC State beat Clemson
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
NC State beat Clemson 27-21 in 2 overtimes, September 25, 2021.
How the game turned
Q4 10:52 NC State 14, Clemson 14
NC State 38% to win
Shipley 5-yd TD run, ties it 14-14
Big moments
- 1Q1 9:11 · NC State 0, Clemson 7NC State's win chance fell from 22% to 15%.Uiagalelei 32-yd TD pass to Ross
- 2Q3 5:10 · NC State 14, Clemson 7NC State's win chance rose from 44% to 60%.Leary 12-yd TD pass to Carter, NC State goes ahead 14-7
- 3Q4 10:52 · NC State 14, Clemson 14NC State's win chance fell from 70% to 38%.Shipley 5-yd TD run, ties it 14-14
- 4OT1 · NC State 14, Clemson 21NC State's win chance fell from 24% to 22%.Uiagalelei 9-yd TD pass to Ross
- 5OT1 · NC State 21, Clemson 21NC State's win chance rose from 30% to 42%.Leary 2-yd TD pass to Thomas, ties it 21-21
- 6OT2 · NC State 27, Clemson 21NC State's win chance rose from 42% to 47%.Leary 22-yd TD pass to Carter, two-point try fails, NC State goes ahead 27-21
NC State's lowest chance to win was 9 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 10:52 left in the 4th quarter, Clemson's chance to win went from 30 percent to 62 percent when Clemson scored a touchdown.
The score went from NC State 14, Clemson 7 to NC State 14, Clemson 14.
The play: Shipley 5-yd TD run, ties it 14-14.
It was NC State's first win over Clemson since the 2011 season, after 8 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
NC State's next game: W 34-27 vs Louisiana Tech, Oct 2
7 days laterClemson's next game: W 19-13 vs Boston College, Oct 2
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Sep 25, 2021: Clemson 30, NC State 20, Oct 1, 2022
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.