College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the VRBO Fiesta Bowl ·
College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the VRBO Fiesta Bowl
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 5 Penn State beat No. 8 Boise State by 17 points, the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the VRBO Fiesta Bowl.
It was played at a neutral site: State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ.
How the game turned
Q1 6:40 Penn State 7, Boise State 0
Penn State 88% to win
Allar 11-yd TD pass to Warren, Penn State goes ahead 7-0
Big moments
- 1Q1 6:40 · Penn State 7, Boise State 0Penn State's win chance rose from 84% to 88%.Allar 11-yd TD pass to Warren, Penn State goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q3 11:38 · Penn State 17, Boise State 14Penn State's win chance fell from 95% to 83%.Madsen 53-yd TD pass to Lauter, cuts it to 17-14
Penn State was never below a 71 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
Penn State led after every score.
What happened next
Boise State finished the 2024 season 12-2, No. 8 in the last AP poll before the bowls.
- 9 days later
Boise State's first game of the 2025 season: L 7-34 at South Florida, Aug 28, 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.