College Football Playoff First Round Game ·

College Football Playoff First Round Game

College Football Playoff First Round Game
No. 11 Alabama11-334
No. 8 Oklahoma10-324Final
Fri, Dec 19 · Memorial Stadium, Norman, Okla. · Crowd 83,550 · 52°, clearABC

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

Alabama trailed Oklahoma by 17 points in the 2nd quarter and won 34-24, the College Football Playoff First Round Game, December 19, 2025.

Alabama was No. 11 and Oklahoma No. 8 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

How the game turned

Alabama aheadOklahoma aheadBiggest swingLow: 4%
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Q2 1:18 Alabama 17, Oklahoma 17

Alabama 35% to win

Mateer intercepted by Brown and returned for a TD, ties it 17-17

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 5:29 · Alabama 0, Oklahoma 7Alabama's win chance fell from 32% to 19%.Mateer 8-yd TD run, Oklahoma goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 1:18 · Alabama 17, Oklahoma 17Alabama's win chance rose from 17% to 35%.Mateer intercepted by Brown and returned for a TD, ties it 17-17
  3. 3Q3 11:21 · Alabama 24, Oklahoma 17Alabama's win chance rose from 52% to 69%.Simpson 30-yd TD pass to Brooks, Alabama goes ahead 24-17
  4. 4Q4 14:45 · Alabama 27, Oklahoma 24Alabama's win chance fell from 80% to 62%.Mateer 37-yd TD pass to Burks, cuts it to 27-24
  5. 5Q4 7:24 · Alabama 34, Oklahoma 24Alabama's win chance rose from 77% to 90%.Hill 6-yd TD run, Alabama leads 34-24

Alabama's lowest chance to win was 4 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 1:18 left in the 2nd quarter, Alabama's chance to win went from 17 percent to 35 percent when Alabama scored a touchdown.

The score went from Alabama 10, Oklahoma 17 to Alabama 17, Oklahoma 17.

The play: Mateer intercepted by Brown and returned for a TD, ties it 17-17.

What happened next

  1. Oklahoma finished the 2025 season 10-3, No. 8 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Alabama's next game: L 3-38 vs Indiana in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl, Jan 1

    13 days later

  3. Oklahoma's first game of the 2026 season: W 51-0 vs UTEP, Sep 4, 2026

    about 9 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.

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