Regular season ·

Western Kentucky beat Middle Tennessee

Western Kentucky1-220
Middle Tennessee0-417Final
Sat, Oct 3 · Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium, Murfreesboro, Tenn. · Crowd 6,500 · 68°, mainly clearESPN3

Records are after this game.

Western Kentucky beat Middle Tennessee by 3 points.

How the game turned

Western Kentucky aheadMiddle Tennessee aheadBiggest swingLow: 45%

Q4 6:04 Western Kentucky 20, Middle Tennessee 10

Western Kentucky 94% to win

Pigrome 11-yd TD pass to Simon, Western Kentucky leads 20-10

Big moments

  1. 1Q2 14:09 · Western Kentucky 3, Middle Tennessee 0Western Kentucky's win chance rose from 69% to 72%.Narveson 47-yd field goal, Western Kentucky goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 7:51 · Western Kentucky 3, Middle Tennessee 7Western Kentucky's win chance fell from 67% to 59%.O'Hara 1-yd TD run, Middle Tennessee goes ahead 7-3
  3. 3Q3 3:26 · Western Kentucky 13, Middle Tennessee 10Western Kentucky's win chance rose from 68% to 80%.Narveson 53-yd field goal, Western Kentucky goes ahead 13-10
  4. 4Q4 6:04 · Western Kentucky 20, Middle Tennessee 10Western Kentucky's win chance rose from 79% to 94%.Pigrome 11-yd TD pass to Simon, Western Kentucky leads 20-10

Western Kentucky's lowest chance to win was 45 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 6:04 left in the 4th quarter, Western Kentucky's chance to win went from 79 percent to 94 percent when Western Kentucky scored a touchdown.

The score went from Western Kentucky 13, Middle Tennessee 10 to Western Kentucky 20, Middle Tennessee 10.

The play: Pigrome 11-yd TD pass to Simon, Western Kentucky leads 20-10.

What happened next

  1. Western Kentucky's next game: L 14-38 vs Marshall, Oct 10

    7 days later
  2. Middle Tennessee's next game: W 31-28 at Florida International, Oct 10

    7 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 3, 2020: Western Kentucky 48, Middle Tennessee 21, Nov 6, 2021

    about 13 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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