Regular season ·
Georgia Tech beat Clemson
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
Georgia Tech beat No. 12 Clemson by 3 points.
Clemson was No. 12 in the AP poll before the game; Georgia Tech was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q4 0:00 Georgia Tech 24, Clemson 21
Georgia Tech 100% to win
Birr 55-yd field goal, Georgia Tech wins it 24-21
Big moments
- 1Q1 5:50 · Georgia Tech 3, Clemson 0Birr 40-yd field goal, Georgia Tech goes ahead 3-0
- 2Q3 9:36 · Georgia Tech 13, Clemson 14Georgia Tech's win chance fell from 66% to 45%.Klubnik 73-yd TD pass to Wesco, Clemson goes ahead 14-13
- 3Q4 10:02 · Georgia Tech 21, Clemson 14Georgia Tech's win chance rose from 50% to 85%.King 1-yd TD run, two-point try good, Georgia Tech goes ahead 21-14
- 4Q4 3:26 · Georgia Tech 21, Clemson 21Georgia Tech's win chance fell from 81% to 52%.Randall 2-yd TD run, ties it 21-21
- 5Q4 0:00 · Georgia Tech 24, Clemson 21Georgia Tech's win chance rose from 55% to 100%.Birr 55-yd field goal, Georgia Tech wins it 24-21
Georgia Tech's lowest chance to win was 39 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 0:00 left in the 4th quarter, Georgia Tech's chance to win went from 55 percent to 99 percent when Georgia Tech kicked a field goal.
The score went from Georgia Tech 21, Clemson 21 to Georgia Tech 24, Clemson 21.
The play: Birr 55-yd field goal, Georgia Tech wins it 24-21.
It was Georgia Tech's first win over Clemson since the 2014 season, after 9 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Clemson was No. 12 before the game and out of the next AP poll.
Georgia Tech's next game: W 45-24 vs Temple, Sep 20
7 days laterClemson's next game: L 21-34 vs Syracuse, Sep 20
7 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.