College Football Playoff First Round Game ·

College Football Playoff First Round Game

College Football Playoff First Round Game Presented by Allstate
No. 7 Tennessee10-317
No. 6 Ohio State11-242Final
Sat, Dec 21 · Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio · Crowd 102,819 · 26°, cloudyESPN

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

No. 6 Ohio State beat No. 7 Tennessee by 25 points, the College Football Playoff First Round Game.

How the game turned

Ohio State aheadTennessee ahead
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Q1 12:46 Ohio State 7, Tennessee 0

Ohio State 83% to win

Howard 37-yd TD pass to Smith, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:46 · Ohio State 7, Tennessee 0Ohio State's win chance rose from 74% to 83%.Howard 37-yd TD pass to Smith, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0

Ohio State was never below a 72 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

Ohio State led after every score.

What happened next

  1. Tennessee finished the 2024 season 10-3, No. 7 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Ohio State's next game: W 41-21 vs Oregon in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl, Jan 1

    11 days later

  3. Tennessee's first game of the 2025 season: W 45-26 vs Syracuse, 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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