Regular season ·
Maryland beat Penn State
Records are after this game.
Maryland beat Penn State by 16 points.
The announced crowd was 1,500, in the 2020 season.
How the game turned
Q2 0:45 Maryland 28, Penn State 7
Maryland 75% to win
Tagovailoa 34-yd TD pass to Demus, Maryland leads 28-7
Big moments
- 1Q1 12:27 · Maryland 7, Penn State 0Maryland's win chance rose from 6% to 9%.Tagovailoa 42-yd TD pass to Jarrett, Maryland goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 11:49 · Maryland 21, Penn State 0Maryland's win chance rose from 38% to 55%.Funk 38-yd TD run, Maryland leads 21-0
- 3Q2 0:45 · Maryland 28, Penn State 7Maryland's win chance rose from 55% to 75%.Tagovailoa 34-yd TD pass to Demus, Maryland leads 28-7
Maryland's lowest chance to win was 3 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 0:45 left in the 2nd quarter, Maryland's chance to win went from 55 percent to 75 percent when Maryland scored a touchdown.
The score went from Maryland 21, Penn State 7 to Maryland 28, Penn State 7.
The play: Tagovailoa 34-yd TD pass to Demus, Maryland leads 28-7.
It was Maryland's first win over Penn State since the 2014 season, after 5 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Penn State's next game: L 23-30 at Nebraska, Nov 14
7 days laterMaryland's next game: L 11-27 at Indiana, Nov 28
21 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 7, 2020: Penn State 31, Maryland 14, Nov 6, 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.

