Regular season ·

Houston beat TCU

Houston2-430
TCU3-319Final
Fri, Oct 4 · Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas · Crowd 44,211 · 86°, clearESPN

Records are after this game.

Houston beat TCU by 11 points.

How the game turned

Houston aheadTCU aheadBiggest swingLow: 11%

Q2 1:48 Houston 24, TCU 6

Houston 79% to win

Chriss 71-yd TD run, Houston leads 24-6

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 5:29 · Houston 7, TCU 0Houston's win chance rose from 19% to 23%.Chriss 8-yd TD pass to Williams, Houston goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 13:38 · Houston 14, TCU 0Houston's win chance rose from 36% to 53%.Sanford 2-yd TD run, Houston leads 14-0
  3. 3Q2 1:48 · Houston 24, TCU 6Houston's win chance rose from 60% to 79%.Chriss 71-yd TD run, Houston leads 24-6
  4. 4Q4 9:25 · Houston 27, TCU 19Houston's win chance fell from 91% to 72%.Hoover 29-yd TD pass to Bech, cuts it to 27-19

Houston'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 1:48 left in the 2nd quarter, Houston's chance to win went from 60 percent to 79 percent when Houston scored a touchdown.

The score went from Houston 17, TCU 6 to Houston 24, TCU 6.

The play: Chriss 71-yd TD run, Houston leads 24-6.

It was Houston's first win over TCU since the 1992 season, after 9 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Houston's next game: L 14-42 vs Kansas, Oct 19

    15 days later
  2. TCU's next game: W 13-7 at Utah, Oct 19

    15 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 4, 2024: TCU 17, Houston 14, Nov 22, 2025

    about 14 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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