Regular season ·

UNLV beat Colorado State

Colorado State3-423
UNLV6-125Final
Sat, Oct 21 · Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nev. · Crowd 22,585 · Indoors

Records are after this game.

UNLV beat Colorado State by 2 points.

How the game turned

UNLV aheadColorado State aheadBiggest swingLow: 26%
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Q4 0:03 UNLV 25, Colorado State 23

UNLV 100% to win

Pizano 28-yd field goal, UNLV wins it 25-23

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 14:15 · UNLV 3, Colorado State 0UNLV's win chance rose from 65% to 66%.Pizano 42-yd field goal, UNLV goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 3:58 · UNLV 3, Colorado State 10UNLV's win chance fell from 62% to 43%.Morrow 2-yd TD run, Colorado State goes ahead 10-3
  3. 3Q3 3:06 · UNLV 16, Colorado State 13UNLV's win chance rose from 54% to 70%.Lester 11-yd TD run, UNLV goes ahead 16-13
  4. 4Q4 3:49 · UNLV 19, Colorado State 20UNLV's win chance fell from 82% to 48%.Fowler-Nicolosi 20-yd TD pass to Ross-Simmons, Colorado State goes ahead 20-19
  5. 5Q4 1:27 · UNLV 22, Colorado State 20UNLV's win chance rose from 40% to 71%.Pizano 46-yd field goal, UNLV goes ahead 22-20
  6. 6Q4 0:44 · UNLV 22, Colorado State 23UNLV's win chance fell from 76% to 48%.Noyes 55-yd field goal, Colorado State goes ahead 23-22
  7. 7Q4 0:03 · UNLV 25, Colorado State 23UNLV's win chance rose from 59% to 100%.Pizano 28-yd field goal, UNLV wins it 25-23

UNLV's lowest chance to win was 26 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 0:03 left in the 4th quarter, UNLV's chance to win went from 59 percent to 99 percent when UNLV kicked a field goal.

The score went from UNLV 22, Colorado State 23 to UNLV 25, Colorado State 23.

The play: Pizano 28-yd field goal, UNLV wins it 25-23.

It was UNLV's first win over Colorado State since the 2011 season, after 4 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. UNLV's next game: L 24-31 at Fresno State, Oct 28

    7 days later

  2. Colorado State's next game: L 13-30 vs Air Force, Oct 28

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 21, 2023: UNLV 42, Colorado State 10, Nov 8, 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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