Regular season ·

Penn State beat Pittsburgh

Penn State2-051
Pittsburgh1-16Final
Sat, Sep 8 · Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, Pa. · Crowd 68,400 · 57°, light rainABC

Records are after this game.

Penn State beat Pittsburgh by 45 points.

How the game turned

Penn State aheadPittsburgh ahead
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Q1 12:14 Penn State 7, Pittsburgh 0

Penn State 82% to win

Hamler 32-yd TD run, Penn State goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:14 · Penn State 7, Pittsburgh 0Penn State's win chance rose from 74% to 82%.Hamler 32-yd TD run, Penn State goes ahead 7-0

Penn State was never below a 60 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

Penn State led after every score.

The 45-point margin is the largest in this series since 1970 in our games data, 30 meetings in all.

What happened next

  1. Penn State's next game: W 63-10 vs Kent State, Sep 15

    7 days later

  2. Pittsburgh's next game: W 24-19 vs Georgia Tech, Sep 15

    7 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Sep 8, 2018: Penn State 17, Pittsburgh 10, Sep 14, 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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