Regular season ·

Navy beat UCF

UCF2-230
Navy1-334Final
Sat, Oct 2 · Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, Md. · Crowd 30,871 · 76°, overcastCBS Sports Network

Records are after this game.

Navy had a 4 percent chance to win with 2:55 left in the 3rd quarter, by our win chance curve, and won 34-30, October 2, 2021.

How the game turned

Navy aheadUCF aheadBiggest swingLow: 4%

Q4 3:09 Navy 34, UCF 30

Navy 63% to win

Ruoss 4-yd TD run, Navy goes ahead 34-30

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 13:24 · Navy 0, UCF 7Navy's win chance fell from 12% to 9%.Keene 15-yd TD pass to Johnson, UCF goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 0:56 · Navy 7, UCF 13Navy's win chance fell from 18% to 13%.Johnson 16-yd TD run, blocked, UCF goes ahead 13-7
  3. 3Q4 3:09 · Navy 34, UCF 30Navy's win chance rose from 27% to 63%.Ruoss 4-yd TD run, Navy goes ahead 34-30

Navy'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 3:09 left in the 4th quarter, Navy's chance to win went from 27 percent to 63 percent when Navy scored a touchdown.

The score went from Navy 27, UCF 30 to Navy 34, UCF 30.

The play: Ruoss 4-yd TD run, Navy goes ahead 34-30.

What happened next

  1. Navy's next game: L 24-31 vs SMU, Oct 9

    7 days later
  2. UCF's next game: W 20-16 vs East Carolina, Oct 9

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 2, 2021: Navy 17, UCF 14, 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.

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