Regular season ·

Oklahoma beat Alabama

No. 11 Oklahoma8-223
No. 4 Alabama8-221Final
Sat, Nov 15 · Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Ala. · Crowd 100,077 · 75°, cloudyABC

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

No. 11 Oklahoma beat No. 4 Alabama by 2 points.

How the game turned

Oklahoma aheadAlabama aheadBiggest swing

Q1 2:03 Oklahoma 10, Alabama 0

Oklahoma 62% to win

Simpson intercepted by Bowen and returned for a TD, Oklahoma leads 10-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 11:33 · Oklahoma 3, Alabama 0Sandell 25-yd field goal, Oklahoma goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q1 2:03 · Oklahoma 10, Alabama 0Oklahoma's win chance rose from 19% to 62%.Simpson intercepted by Bowen and returned for a TD, Oklahoma leads 10-0
  3. 3Q2 0:02 · Oklahoma 17, Alabama 14Oklahoma's win chance rose from 27% to 48%.Talty 36-yd field goal no good, blocked
  4. 4Q3 7:27 · Oklahoma 20, Alabama 21Oklahoma's win chance fell from 47% to 28%.Hill 1-yd TD run, Alabama goes ahead 21-20
  5. 5Q4 13:41 · Oklahoma 23, Alabama 21Oklahoma's win chance rose from 33% to 38%.Sandell 24-yd field goal, Oklahoma goes ahead 23-21

Oklahoma's lowest chance to win was 19 percent. 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 2:03 left in the 1st quarter, Oklahoma's chance to win went from 19 percent to 62 percent when Oklahoma scored a touchdown.

The score went from Oklahoma 3, Alabama 0 to Oklahoma 10, Alabama 0.

The play: Simpson intercepted by Bowen and returned for a TD, Oklahoma leads 10-0.

What happened next

  1. Oklahoma's next game: W 17-6 vs Missouri, Nov 22

    7 days later
  2. Alabama's next game: W 56-0 vs Eastern Illinois, Nov 22

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 15, 2025: Alabama 34, Oklahoma 24, Dec 19, 2025

    34 days 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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