Regular season ·

West Virginia beat Oklahoma

Oklahoma5-520
West Virginia4-623Final
Sat, Nov 12 · Milan Puskar Stadium, Morgantown, W.Va. · Crowd 50,281 · 50°, rainFS1

Records are after this game.

West Virginia had a 7 percent chance to win in the 4th quarter, by our win chance curve, and won 23-20, November 12, 2022.

How the game turned

West Virginia aheadOklahoma aheadBiggest swingLow: 7%

Q4 0:00 West Virginia 23, Oklahoma 20

West Virginia 100% to win

Legg 25-yd field goal, West Virginia wins it 23-20

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 9:42 · West Virginia 0, Oklahoma 3Schmit 32-yd field goal, Oklahoma goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 (no clock) · West Virginia 0, Oklahoma 3West Virginia's win chance rose from 12% to 26%.Gabriel incomplete, turnover on downs
  3. 3Q3 1:22 · West Virginia 13, Oklahoma 20West Virginia's win chance fell from 30% to 13%.Gray 5-yd TD run, two-point try good, Oklahoma goes ahead 20-13
  4. 4Q4 11:20 · West Virginia 20, Oklahoma 20West Virginia's win chance rose from 19% to 32%.Greene 11-yd TD run, ties it 20-20
  5. 5Q4 0:00 · West Virginia 23, Oklahoma 20West Virginia's win chance rose from 52% to 100%.Legg 25-yd field goal, West Virginia wins it 23-20

West Virginia's lowest chance to win was 7 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 0:00 left in the 4th quarter, West Virginia's chance to win went from 52 percent to 99 percent when West Virginia kicked a field goal.

The score went from West Virginia 20, Oklahoma 20 to West Virginia 23, Oklahoma 20.

The play: Legg 25-yd field goal, West Virginia wins it 23-20.

It was West Virginia's first win over Oklahoma since the 2007 season, after 9 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. West Virginia's next game: L 31-48 vs Kansas State, Nov 19

    7 days later
  2. Oklahoma's next game: W 28-13 vs Oklahoma State, Nov 19

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 12, 2022: Oklahoma 59, West Virginia 20, Nov 11, 2023

    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.

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