Regular season ·

Tulane beat Cincinnati

No. 19 Tulane10-227
No. 21 Cincinnati9-324Final
Fri, Nov 25 · Nippert Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio · Crowd 37,989 · 53°, fogABC

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

No. 19 Tulane beat No. 21 Cincinnati by 3 points.

How the game turned

Tulane aheadCincinnati aheadBiggest swing

Q4 5:10 Tulane 27, Cincinnati 24

Tulane 72% to win

Pratt 30-yd TD pass to Watts, Tulane goes ahead 27-24

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 5:17 · Tulane 3, Cincinnati 0Ambrosio 34-yd field goal, Tulane goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 4:58 · Tulane 10, Cincinnati 3Tulane's win chance rose from 57% to 71%.Spears 11-yd TD run, Tulane goes ahead 10-3
  3. 3Q2 0:16 · Tulane 13, Cincinnati 10Ambrosio 47-yd field goal, Tulane goes ahead 13-10
  4. 4Q4 6:27 · Tulane 20, Cincinnati 24Tulane's win chance fell from 49% to 27%.Montgomery 15-yd TD run, Cincinnati goes ahead 24-20
  5. 5Q4 5:10 · Tulane 27, Cincinnati 24Tulane's win chance rose from 30% to 72%.Pratt 30-yd TD pass to Watts, Tulane goes ahead 27-24

Tulane's lowest chance to win was 27 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 5:10 left in the 4th quarter, Tulane's chance to win went from 30 percent to 72 percent when Tulane scored a touchdown.

The score went from Tulane 20, Cincinnati 24 to Tulane 27, Cincinnati 24.

The play: Pratt 30-yd TD pass to Watts, Tulane goes ahead 27-24.

It was Tulane's first win over Cincinnati since the 2002 season, after 4 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Tulane's next game: W 45-28 vs UCF, Dec 3

    8 days later
  2. Cincinnati's next game: L 7-24 vs Louisville in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl, Dec 17

    22 days 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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