Regular season ·

Eastern Michigan beat Illinois

Eastern Michigan2-134
Illinois2-131Final
Sat, Sep 14 · Memorial Stadium, Champaign, Ill. · Crowd 34,759 · 75°BTN

Records are after this game.

Eastern Michigan beat Illinois by 3 points.

How the game turned

Eastern Michigan aheadIllinois aheadBiggest swingLow: 19%
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Q4 0:00 Eastern Michigan 34, Illinois 31

Eastern Michigan 100% to win

Ryland 24-yd field goal, Eastern Michigan wins it 34-31

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 9:18 · Eastern Michigan 0, Illinois 3McCourt 57-yd field goal, Illinois goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q1 8:02 · Eastern Michigan 7, Illinois 3Eastern Michigan's win chance rose from 36% to 45%.Glass 26-yd TD pass to Jackson, Eastern Michigan goes ahead 7-3
  3. 3Q1 6:52 · Eastern Michigan 7, Illinois 10Eastern Michigan's win chance fell from 45% to 33%.Peters 14-yd TD pass to Smalling, Illinois goes ahead 10-7
  4. 4Q1 3:55 · Eastern Michigan 14, Illinois 10Eastern Michigan's win chance rose from 37% to 47%.Glass 54-yd TD pass to Sexton, Eastern Michigan goes ahead 14-10
  5. 5Q1 1:42 · Eastern Michigan 14, Illinois 17Eastern Michigan's win chance fell from 43% to 34%.Bonner 4-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 17-14
  6. 6Q2 8:28 · Eastern Michigan 20, Illinois 17Eastern Michigan's win chance rose from 33% to 46%.Glass 31-yd TD pass to Jackson, Eastern Michigan goes ahead 20-17
  7. 7Q4 1:44 · Eastern Michigan 31, Illinois 31Eastern Michigan's win chance fell from 79% to 49%.Peters 36-yd TD pass to Imatorbhebhe, ties it 31-31
  8. 8Q4 0:00 · Eastern Michigan 34, Illinois 31Eastern Michigan's win chance rose from 64% to 100%.Ryland 24-yd field goal, Eastern Michigan wins it 34-31

Eastern Michigan's lowest chance to win was 19 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 0:00 left in the 4th quarter, Eastern Michigan's chance to win went from 64 percent to 99 percent when Eastern Michigan kicked a field goal.

The score went from Eastern Michigan 31, Illinois 31 to Eastern Michigan 34, Illinois 31.

The play: Ryland 24-yd field goal, Eastern Michigan wins it 34-31.

What happened next

  1. Eastern Michigan's next game: W 34-29 vs Central Connecticut, Sep 21

    7 days later

  2. Illinois's next game: L 38-42 vs Nebraska, Sep 21

    7 days 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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