Regular season ·
Vanderbilt beat South Carolina
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
Vanderbilt beat No. 11 South Carolina by 24 points.
South Carolina was No. 11 in the AP poll before the game; Vanderbilt was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q1 9:33 Vanderbilt 7, South Carolina 0
Vanderbilt 61% to win
Pavia 18-yd TD pass to Alexander, Vanderbilt goes ahead 7-0
Big moments
- 1Q1 9:33 · Vanderbilt 7, South Carolina 0Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 46% to 61%.Pavia 18-yd TD pass to Alexander, Vanderbilt goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q1 5:58 · Vanderbilt 7, South Carolina 7Vanderbilt's win chance fell from 51% to 35%.Faison 7-yd TD run, ties it 7-7
- 3Q2 1:56 · Vanderbilt 14, South Carolina 7Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 41% to 62%.Pavia 5-yd TD pass to Sherrill, Vanderbilt goes ahead 14-7
- 4Q3 10:48 · Vanderbilt 21, South Carolina 7Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 79% to 90%.Lassiter 44-yd TD run, Vanderbilt leads 21-7
Vanderbilt's lowest chance to win was 31 percent. 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
Vanderbilt took the lead for good with 1:56 left in the 2nd quarter, Vanderbilt 14, South Carolina 7.
It was Vanderbilt's first win over South Carolina since the 2008 season, after 16 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
South Carolina was No. 11 before the game and out of the next AP poll.
Vanderbilt's next game: W 70-21 vs Georgia State, Sep 20
7 days laterSouth Carolina's next game: L 20-29 at Missouri, Sep 20
7 days later
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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.