College Football Playoff First Round Game ·

College Football Playoff First Round Game

College Football Playoff First Round Game
No. 17 Tulane11-310
No. 6 Ole Miss12-141Final
Sat, Dec 20 · Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Miss. · Crowd 68,251 · 66°, clearTNT

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

No. 6 Ole Miss beat No. 17 Tulane by 31 points, the College Football Playoff First Round Game.

How the game turned

Ole Miss aheadTulane ahead
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Q1 14:01 Ole Miss 7, Tulane 0

Ole Miss 96% to win

Lacy 20-yd TD run, Ole Miss goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 14:01 · Ole Miss 7, Tulane 0Ole Miss's win chance rose from 93% to 96%.Lacy 20-yd TD run, Ole Miss goes ahead 7-0

Ole Miss was never below a 92 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.

How the lead changed

Ole Miss led after every score.

What happened next

  1. Tulane finished the 2025 season 11-3, No. 17 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Ole Miss's next game: W 39-34 vs Georgia in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl, Jan 1

    12 days later

  3. Tulane's first game of the 2026 season: L 3-17 at Duke, Sep 5, 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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