Pac-12 Championship Game ·
Pac-12 Championship Game
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 12 Utah beat No. 4 USC by 23 points, the Pac-12 Championship Game.
It was played at a neutral site: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV.
How the game turned
Q4 10:08 Utah 34, USC 24
Utah 91% to win
Rising 60-yd TD pass to Yassmin, Utah leads 34-24
Big moments
- 1Q1 11:28 · Utah 0, USC 7Utah's win chance fell from 34% to 27%.Williams 2-yd TD pass to Washington, USC goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q3 10:33 · Utah 24, USC 17Utah's win chance rose from 53% to 74%.Rising 57-yd TD pass to Parks, Utah goes ahead 24-17
- 3Q4 10:08 · Utah 34, USC 24Utah's win chance rose from 64% to 91%.Rising 60-yd TD pass to Yassmin, Utah leads 34-24
Utah's lowest chance to win was 11 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 10:08 left in the 4th quarter, Utah's chance to win went from 64 percent to 91 percent when Utah scored a touchdown.
The score went from Utah 27, USC 24 to Utah 34, USC 24.
The play: Rising 60-yd TD pass to Yassmin, Utah leads 34-24.
The 23-point margin is the largest in this series since 1970 in our games data, 15 meetings in all.
What happened next
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.