Regular season ·

Fresno State beat UCLA

Fresno State3-140
No. 13 UCLA2-137Final
Sat, Sep 18 · Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif. · Crowd 50,698 · 62°, clearPAC12

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

Fresno State beat No. 13 UCLA by 3 points.

UCLA was No. 13 in the AP poll before the game; Fresno State was not ranked.

How the game turned

Fresno State aheadUCLA aheadLow: 20%
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Q4 0:14 Fresno State 40, UCLA 37

Fresno State 70% to win

Haener 13-yd TD pass to Cropper, Fresno State goes ahead 40-37

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 5:54 · Fresno State 6, UCLA 0Fresno State's win chance rose from 36% to 40%.Rivers 1-yd TD run, two-point try fails, Fresno State goes ahead 6-0
  2. 2Q1 3:59 · Fresno State 6, UCLA 7Fresno State's win chance fell from 36% to 28%.Charbonnet 6-yd TD run, UCLA goes ahead 7-6
  3. 3Q2 11:49 · Fresno State 13, UCLA 7Fresno State's win chance rose from 33% to 38%.Cropper 1-yd TD run, Fresno State goes ahead 13-7
  4. 4Q4 7:27 · Fresno State 26, UCLA 30Fresno State's win chance fell from 44% to 22%.Charbonnet 3-yd TD run, two-point try good, UCLA goes ahead 30-26
  5. 5Q4 2:55 · Fresno State 33, UCLA 30Fresno State's win chance rose from 27% to 69%.Haener 19-yd TD pass to Brooks, Fresno State goes ahead 33-30
  6. 6Q4 0:54 · Fresno State 33, UCLA 37Fresno State's win chance fell from 52% to 26%.Thompson-Robinson 15-yd TD pass to Philips, UCLA goes ahead 37-33
  7. 7Q4 0:14 · Fresno State 40, UCLA 37Fresno State's win chance rose from 38% to 70%.Haener 13-yd TD pass to Cropper, Fresno State goes ahead 40-37

Fresno State's lowest chance to win was 20 percent. 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

Fresno State took the lead for good with 0:14 left in the 4th quarter, Fresno State 40, UCLA 37.

What happened next

  1. UCLA went from No. 13 to No. 24 in the next AP poll.

  2. Fresno State's next game: W 38-30 vs UNLV, Sep 24

    6 days later

  3. UCLA's next game: W 35-24 at Stanford, Sep 25

    7 days later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Sep 18, 2021: UCLA 20, Fresno State 13, Nov 30, 2024

    about 3 years 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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