Regular season ·

South Carolina beat Tennessee

No. 5 Tennessee9-238
South Carolina7-463Final
Sat, Nov 19 · Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia, S.C. · Crowd 79,041 · 54°, cloudyESPN

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

South Carolina beat No. 5 Tennessee by 25 points.

Tennessee was No. 5 in the AP poll before the game; South Carolina was not ranked.

How the game turned

South Carolina aheadTennessee aheadBiggest swingLow: 5%
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Q3 5:03 South Carolina 42, Tennessee 31

South Carolina 60% to win

Wells 3-yd TD run, South Carolina leads 42-31

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:34 · South Carolina 7, Tennessee 0South Carolina's win chance rose from 7% to 16%.Rattler 19-yd TD pass to Bell, South Carolina goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 6:25 · South Carolina 14, Tennessee 7South Carolina's win chance rose from 13% to 18%.Rattler 60-yd TD pass to Vann, South Carolina goes ahead 14-7
  3. 3Q2 12:24 · South Carolina 21, Tennessee 14South Carolina's win chance fell from 41% to 28%.Hooker 3-yd TD pass to Tillman, cuts it to 21-14
  4. 4Q3 5:03 · South Carolina 42, Tennessee 31South Carolina's win chance rose from 43% to 60%.Wells 3-yd TD run, South Carolina leads 42-31
  5. 5Q4 11:41 · South Carolina 49, Tennessee 31South Carolina's win chance rose from 80% to 95%.Rattler 2-yd TD pass to Bell, South Carolina leads 49-31

South Carolina's lowest chance to win was 5 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 5:03 left in the 3rd quarter, South Carolina's chance to win went from 43 percent to 60 percent when South Carolina scored a touchdown.

The score went from South Carolina 35, Tennessee 31 to South Carolina 42, Tennessee 31.

The play: Wells 3-yd TD run, South Carolina leads 42-31.

It was South Carolina's first win over Tennessee since the 2018 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. South Carolina's next game: W 31-30 at Clemson, Nov 26

    7 days later

  2. Tennessee's next game: W 56-0 at Vanderbilt, Nov 26

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 19, 2022: Tennessee 41, South Carolina 20, Sep 30, 2023

    about 10 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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