Regular season ·
Illinois beat Nebraska
Records are after this game.
Illinois beat Nebraska by 18 points.
How the game turned
Q2 5:50 Illinois 28, Nebraska 10
Illinois 72% to win
Epstein 1-yd TD run, Illinois leads 28-10
Big moments
- 1Q1 13:31 · Illinois 7, Nebraska 0Brown 3-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q1 5:39 · Illinois 14, Nebraska 7Illinois's win chance rose from 21% to 29%.Brown 2-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 14-7
- 3Q2 13:48 · Illinois 21, Nebraska 7Illinois's win chance rose from 40% to 56%.Peters 28-yd TD pass to Imatorbhebhe, Illinois leads 21-7
- 4Q2 5:50 · Illinois 28, Nebraska 10Illinois's win chance rose from 56% to 72%.Epstein 1-yd TD run, Illinois leads 28-10
- 5Q3 2:31 · Illinois 38, Nebraska 17Illinois's win chance rose from 84% to 95%.Peters 1-yd TD run, Illinois leads 38-17
Illinois's lowest chance to win was 17 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 5:50 left in the 2nd quarter, Illinois's chance to win went from 56 percent to 72 percent when Illinois scored a touchdown.
The score went from Illinois 21, Nebraska 10 to Illinois 28, Nebraska 10.
The play: Epstein 1-yd TD run, Illinois leads 28-10.
It was Illinois's first win over Nebraska since the 2015 season, after 4 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Nebraska's next game: L 20-26 at Iowa, Nov 27
6 days laterIllinois's next game: L 21-35 vs Iowa, Dec 5
14 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 21, 2020: Illinois 30, Nebraska 22, Aug 28, 2021
about 9 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.