Regular season ·
Ohio State beat Texas
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 3 Ohio State beat No. 1 Texas by 7 points.
How the game turned
Q2 8:57 Ohio State 7, Texas 0
Ohio State 81% to win
Donaldson 1-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0
Big moments
- 1Q1 (no clock) · Ohio State 0, Texas 0Ohio State's win chance fell from 64% to 53%.Sayin incomplete to Klare, turnover on downs
- 2Q2 8:57 · Ohio State 7, Texas 0Ohio State's win chance rose from 60% to 81%.Donaldson 1-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0
Ohio State was never below a 51 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.
The biggest swing
With 8:57 left in the 2nd quarter, Ohio State's chance to win went from 60 percent to 81 percent when Ohio State scored a touchdown.
The score went from Ohio State 0, Texas 0 to Ohio State 7, Texas 0.
The play: Donaldson 1-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0.
What happened next
Ohio State's next game: W 70-0 vs Grambling, Sep 6
7 days laterTexas's next game: W 38-7 vs San José State, Sep 6
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Aug 30, 2025: Texas 24, Ohio State 23, Sep 12, 2026
about 12 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.