College Football Playoff First Round Game ·

College Football Playoff First Round Game

College Football Playoff First Round Game Presented by Allstate
No. 13 Clemson10-424
No. 4 Texas12-238Final
Sat, Dec 21 · DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas · Crowd 101,150 · 63°, clearTNT

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

No. 4 Texas beat No. 13 Clemson by 14 points, the College Football Playoff First Round Game.

How the game turned

Texas aheadClemson ahead
12

Q2 12:49 Texas 14, Clemson 7

Texas 87% to win

Blue 38-yd TD run, Texas goes ahead 14-7

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 8:14 · Texas 0, Clemson 7Texas's win chance fell from 74% to 62%.Klubnik 22-yd TD pass to Williams, Clemson goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 12:49 · Texas 14, Clemson 7Texas's win chance rose from 77% to 87%.Blue 38-yd TD run, Texas goes ahead 14-7

Texas was never below a 59 percent chance to win. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

Texas took the lead for good with 12:49 left in the 2nd quarter, Texas 14, Clemson 7.

What happened next

  1. Clemson finished the 2024 season 10-4, No. 13 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Texas's next game: W 39-31 vs Arizona State in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Jan 1

    11 days later

  3. Clemson's first game of the 2025 season: L 10-17 vs LSU, Aug 30, 2025

    about 8 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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