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Indiana beat Penn State

No. 8 Penn State0-135
Indiana1-036Final
Sat, Oct 24 · Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. · Crowd 995 · 52°, clearFS1

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

Indiana beat No. 8 Penn State by 1 point in overtime.

Penn State was No. 8 in the AP poll before the game; Indiana was not ranked.

The announced crowd was 995, in the 2020 season.

How the game turned

Indiana aheadPenn State aheadBiggest swingLow: 9%
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OT1 Indiana 36, Penn State 35

Indiana 100% to win

Penix 9-yd TD pass to Philyor, two-point try good, Indiana wins it 36-35

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 7:59 · Indiana 0, Penn State 7Indiana's win chance fell from 31% to 20%.Clifford 2-yd TD pass to Freiermuth, Penn State goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 8:12 · Indiana 10, Penn State 7Indiana's win chance rose from 30% to 40%.Scott 14-yd TD run, Indiana goes ahead 10-7
  3. 3Q4 2:30 · Indiana 20, Penn State 21Indiana's win chance fell from 84% to 40%.Clifford 60-yd TD pass to Dotson, Penn State goes ahead 21-20
  4. 4Q4 0:22 · Indiana 28, Penn State 28Indiana's win chance rose from 13% to 37%.Penix 1-yd TD run, two-point try good, ties it 28-28
  5. 5OT1 · Indiana 28, Penn State 35Indiana's win chance fell from 33% to 24%.Clifford 9-yd TD pass to Washington, Penn State goes ahead 35-28
  6. 6OT1 · Indiana 36, Penn State 35Indiana's win chance rose from 25% to 100%.Penix 9-yd TD pass to Philyor, two-point try good, Indiana wins it 36-35

Indiana's lowest chance to win was 9 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 overtime, Indiana's chance to win went from 25 percent to 99 percent when Indiana scored a touchdown.

The score went from Indiana 28, Penn State 35 to Indiana 36, Penn State 35.

The play: Penix 9-yd TD pass to Philyor, two-point try good, Indiana wins it 36-35.

It was Indiana's first win over Penn State since the 2013 season, after 6 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Penn State went from No. 8 to No. 18 in the next AP poll.

  2. Indiana's next game: W 37-21 at Rutgers, Oct 31

    7 days later

  3. Penn State's next game: L 25-38 vs Ohio State, Oct 31

    7 days later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Oct 24, 2020: Penn State 24, Indiana 0, Oct 2, 2021

    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.

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