Regular season ·

Purdue beat Ohio State

No. 2 Ohio State7-120
Purdue4-349Final
Sat, Oct 20 · Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, Ind. · Crowd 60,716 · 38°ABC

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

Purdue beat No. 2 Ohio State by 29 points.

Ohio State was No. 2 in the AP poll before the game; Purdue was not ranked.

How the game turned

Purdue aheadOhio State aheadLow: 14%

Q1 (no clock) Purdue 7, Ohio State 0

Purdue 36% to win

Blough 13-yd TD pass to Zico, Purdue goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 (no clock) · Purdue 7, Ohio State 0Purdue's win chance rose from 30% to 36%.Blough 13-yd TD pass to Zico, Purdue goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 0:27 · Purdue 14, Ohio State 3Purdue's win chance rose from 47% to 63%.Blough 9-yd TD pass to Moore, Purdue leads 14-3

Purdue's lowest chance to win was 14 percent. 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

Purdue led after every score.

What happened next

  1. Ohio State went from No. 2 to No. 11 in the next AP poll.

  2. Purdue's next game: L 13-23 at Michigan State, Oct 27

    7 days later
  3. Ohio State's next game: W 36-31 vs Nebraska, Nov 3

    14 days later
  4. The teams' next meeting after Oct 20, 2018: Ohio State 59, Purdue 31, Nov 13, 2021

    about 3 years 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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