Regular season ·

Colorado beat TCU

Colorado1-045
No. 17 TCU0-142Final
Sat, Sep 2 · Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas · Crowd 53,294 · 89°, fairFOX

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

Colorado beat No. 17 TCU by 3 points.

TCU was No. 17 in the AP poll before the game; Colorado was not ranked.

How the game turned

Colorado aheadTCU aheadBiggest swingLow: 1%
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Q4 4:25 Colorado 45, TCU 42

Colorado 37% to win

Sanders 46-yd TD pass to Edwards, Colorado goes ahead 45-42

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 0:00 · Colorado 17, TCU 14Colorado's win chance rose from 5% to 8%.Feely 49-yd field goal, Colorado goes ahead 17-14
  2. 2Q3 2:32 · Colorado 24, TCU 28Colorado's win chance fell from 6% to 3%.Morris 23-yd TD pass to Wright, TCU goes ahead 28-24
  3. 3Q3 0:27 · Colorado 31, TCU 28Colorado's win chance rose from 6% to 14%.Edwards 7-yd TD run, Colorado goes ahead 31-28
  4. 4Q4 10:49 · Colorado 31, TCU 35Colorado's win chance fell from 13% to 5%.Morris 19-yd TD run, TCU goes ahead 35-31
  5. 5Q4 7:36 · Colorado 38, TCU 35Colorado's win chance rose from 6% to 16%.Sanders 26-yd TD pass to Horn, Colorado goes ahead 38-35
  6. 6Q4 7:00 · Colorado 38, TCU 42Colorado's win chance fell from 16% to 6%.Sanders 1-yd TD run, TCU goes ahead 42-38
  7. 7Q4 4:25 · Colorado 45, TCU 42Colorado's win chance rose from 8% to 37%.Sanders 46-yd TD pass to Edwards, Colorado goes ahead 45-42

Colorado's lowest chance to win was 1 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 4:25 left in the 4th quarter, Colorado's chance to win went from 8 percent to 37 percent when Colorado scored a touchdown.

The score went from Colorado 38, TCU 42 to Colorado 45, TCU 42.

The play: Sanders 46-yd TD pass to Edwards, Colorado goes ahead 45-42.

What happened next

  1. Colorado's next game: W 36-14 vs Nebraska, Sep 9

    7 days later

  2. TCU's next game: W 41-6 vs Nicholls, Sep 9

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Sep 2, 2023: TCU 35, Colorado 21, Oct 4, 2025

    about 2 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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