Big Ten Championship ·
Big Ten Championship
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 6 Ohio State beat No. 21 Northwestern by 21 points, the Big Ten Championship.
It was played at a neutral site: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN.
How the game turned
Q1 10:31 Ohio State 7, Northwestern 0
Ohio State 91% to win
Haskins 16-yd TD pass to McLaurin, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0
Big moments
- 1Q1 10:31 · Ohio State 7, Northwestern 0Ohio State's win chance rose from 90% to 91%.Haskins 16-yd TD pass to McLaurin, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q1 3:29 · Ohio State 14, Northwestern 7Ohio State's win chance rose from 86% to 89%.Dobbins 2-yd TD run
Ohio State was never below a 65 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
Ohio State took the lead for good with 3:29 left in the 1st quarter, Ohio State 14, Northwestern 7.
A margin this large, 21 points, last came in this series in the 2008 season, going by our games data since 1970.
What happened next
Northwestern's next game: W 31-20 vs Utah, Dec 31
30 days laterOhio State's next game: W 28-23 vs Washington in the Rose Bowl Game, Jan 1
31 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Dec 1, 2018: Ohio State 52, Northwestern 3, Oct 18, 2019
about 11 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.