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West Virginia beat Baylor

Baylor1-121
West Virginia2-127Final
Sat, Oct 3 · Milan Puskar Stadium, Morgantown, W.Va. · Crowd 978 · 58°, partly cloudyABC

Records are after this game.

West Virginia beat Baylor 27-21 in 2 overtimes, October 3, 2020.

How the game turned

West Virginia aheadBaylor aheadBiggest swingLow: 24%

OT2 West Virginia 27, Baylor 21

West Virginia 100% to win

Brown 3-yd TD run, West Virginia wins it 27-21

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 8:51 · West Virginia 7, Baylor 0West Virginia's win chance rose from 52% to 61%.Doege 1-yd TD run, West Virginia goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 6:11 · West Virginia 7, Baylor 0West Virginia's win chance fell from 68% to 55%.Doege sacked, fumbles
  3. 3OT1 · West Virginia 21, Baylor 14Doege 6-yd TD pass to Ford-Wheaton, West Virginia goes ahead 21-14
  4. 4OT1 · West Virginia 21, Baylor 21West Virginia's win chance fell from 49% to 39%.Brewer 25-yd TD pass to Sims, ties it 21-21
  5. 5OT2 · West Virginia 27, Baylor 21West Virginia's win chance rose from 57% to 100%.Brown 3-yd TD run, West Virginia wins it 27-21

West Virginia's lowest chance to win was 24 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

In the second overtime, West Virginia's chance to win went from 57 percent to 99 percent when West Virginia scored a touchdown.

The score went from West Virginia 21, Baylor 21 to West Virginia 27, Baylor 21.

The play: Brown 3-yd TD run, West Virginia wins it 27-21.

What happened next

  1. West Virginia's next game: W 38-17 vs Kansas, Oct 17

    14 days later
  2. Baylor's next game: L 16-27 at Texas, Oct 24

    21 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 3, 2020: Baylor 45, West Virginia 20, Oct 9, 2021

    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.

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