Regular season ·

Northwestern beat Wisconsin

No. 10 Wisconsin2-17
No. 19 Northwestern5-017Final
Sat, Nov 21 · Ryan Field, Evanston, Ill. · 42°, overcastABC

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

No. 19 Northwestern beat No. 10 Wisconsin by 10 points.

How the game turned

Northwestern aheadWisconsin aheadLow: 25%

Q1 10:50 Northwestern 7, Wisconsin 0

Northwestern 46% to win

Ramsey 2-yd TD pass to Mangieri, Northwestern goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:50 · Northwestern 7, Wisconsin 0Northwestern's win chance rose from 39% to 46%.Ramsey 2-yd TD pass to Mangieri, Northwestern goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 5:14 · Northwestern 7, Wisconsin 7Northwestern's win chance fell from 45% to 34%.Mertz 49-yd TD pass to Dike, ties it 7-7
  3. 3Q2 0:56 · Northwestern 14, Wisconsin 7Northwestern's win chance rose from 53% to 59%.Ramsey 25-yd TD pass to Chiaokhiao-Bowman, Northwestern goes ahead 14-7

Northwestern's lowest chance to win was 25 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

Northwestern took the lead for good with 0:56 left in the 2nd quarter, Northwestern 14, Wisconsin 7.

What happened next

  1. Wisconsin went from No. 10 to No. 18 in the next AP poll.

  2. Northwestern's next game: L 20-29 at Michigan State, Nov 28

    7 days later
  3. Wisconsin's next game: L 6-14 vs Indiana, Dec 5

    14 days later
  4. The teams' next meeting after Nov 21, 2020: Wisconsin 35, Northwestern 7, Nov 13, 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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