Regular season ·
Iowa State beat West Virginia
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
Iowa State beat No. 6 West Virginia by 16 points.
West Virginia was No. 6 in the AP poll before the game; Iowa State was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q2 2:58 Iowa State 20, West Virginia 14
Iowa State 68% to win
Derrek Pitts return TD, cuts it to 20-14
Big moments
- 1Q1 6:47 · Iowa State 0, West Virginia 7Iowa State's win chance fell from 31% to 24%.Grier 18-yd TD pass to V
- 2Q1 4:24 · Iowa State 7, West Virginia 7Iowa State's win chance rose from 25% to 38%.Purdy 4-yd TD pass to Butler, ties it 7-7
- 3Q1 0:13 · Iowa State 13, West Virginia 7Iowa State's win chance rose from 47% to 52%.Montgomery 2-yd TD run, Iowa State goes ahead 13-7
- 4Q2 2:58 · Iowa State 20, West Virginia 14Iowa State's win chance fell from 85% to 68%.Derrek Pitts return TD, cuts it to 20-14
Iowa State's lowest chance to win was 23 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 2:58 left in the 2nd quarter, West Virginia's chance to win went from 15 percent to 32 percent when West Virginia scored a touchdown.
The score went from Iowa State 20, West Virginia 7 to Iowa State 20, West Virginia 14.
The play: Derrek Pitts return TD, cuts it to 20-14.
It was Iowa State's first win over West Virginia since the 2013 season, after 4 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
West Virginia's next game: W 58-14 vs Baylor, Oct 25
12 days laterIowa State's next game: W 40-31 vs Texas Tech, Oct 27
14 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Oct 13, 2018: Iowa State 38, West Virginia 14, Oct 12, 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.