Regular season ·

Maryland beat Penn State

Maryland2-135
Penn State0-319Final
Sat, Nov 7 · Beaver Stadium, University Park, Pa. · Crowd 1,500 · 66°, clearBTN

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

Maryland aheadPenn State aheadBiggest swingLow: 3%

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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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

  1. Penn State's next game: L 23-30 at Nebraska, Nov 14

    7 days later
  2. Maryland's next game: L 11-27 at Indiana, Nov 28

    21 days later
  3. The 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.

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