Regular season ·
Northwestern beat Illinois
Records are after this game.
Northwestern beat Illinois by 19 points.
How the game turned
Q2 0:23 Northwestern 10, Illinois 7
Northwestern 44% to win
Marty incomplete to James, turnover on downs
Big moments
- 1Q1 3:05 · Northwestern 3, Illinois 0Kuhbander 33-yd field goal, Northwestern goes ahead 3-0
- 2Q2 13:44 · Northwestern 3, Illinois 7Northwestern's win chance fell from 35% to 29%.Brown 6-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 7-3
- 3Q2 5:20 · Northwestern 10, Illinois 7Northwestern's win chance rose from 34% to 40%.Marty 12-yd TD run, Northwestern goes ahead 10-7
- 4Q2 0:23 · Northwestern 10, Illinois 7Northwestern's win chance fell from 62% to 44%.Marty incomplete to James, turnover on downs
- 5Q3 8:03 · Northwestern 17, Illinois 7Northwestern's win chance rose from 65% to 80%.Marty 34-yd TD pass to Lees, Northwestern leads 17-7
Northwestern's lowest chance to win was 28 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 0:23 left in the 2nd quarter, Illinois's chance to win went from 38 percent to 56 percent on a failed fourth down.
The score stayed Northwestern 10, Illinois 7.
The play: Northwestern on 4th down, Marty incomplete to James.
What happened next
Illinois's next game: L 20-35 vs California in the Redbox Bowl, Dec 30
30 days laterNorthwestern finished the 2019 season 3-9.
Northwestern's first game of the 2020 season: W 43-3 vs Maryland, Oct 24, 2020
about 11 months laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 30, 2019: Northwestern 28, Illinois 10, Dec 12, 2020
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.