Regular season ·

Northwestern beat Illinois

Illinois4-816
No. 20 Northwestern8-424Final
Sat, Nov 24 · Ryan Field, Evanston, Ill. · Crowd 37,124 · 44°, overcastBTN

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

No. 20 Northwestern beat Illinois by 8 points.

How the game turned

Northwestern aheadIllinois ahead
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Q1 5:53 Northwestern 7, Illinois 0

Northwestern 91% to win

Thorson 8-yd TD pass to Skowronek, Northwestern goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 5:53 · Northwestern 7, Illinois 0Northwestern's win chance rose from 89% to 91%.Thorson 8-yd TD pass to Skowronek, Northwestern goes ahead 7-0

Northwestern was never below a 80 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

Northwestern led after every score.

What happened next

  1. Northwestern's next game: L 24-45 vs Ohio State, Dec 1

    7 days later

  2. Illinois finished the 2018 season 4-8.

  3. Illinois's first game of the 2019 season: W 42-3 vs Akron, Aug 31, 2019

    about 9 months later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Nov 24, 2018: Northwestern 29, Illinois 10, Nov 30, 2019

    about 12 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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