Regular season ·

Rutgers beat Maryland

Rutgers3-527
Maryland2-324Final
Sat, Dec 12 · Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium, College Park, Md. · 55°, overcast

Records are after this game.

Rutgers beat Maryland by 3 points in overtime.

How the game turned

Rutgers aheadMaryland aheadBiggest swing

Q4 5:57 Rutgers 21, Maryland 24

Rutgers 35% to win

Najarian 52-yd TD pass to Cobbs, Maryland goes ahead 24-21

Big moments

  1. 1Q3 11:07 · Rutgers 7, Maryland 3Rutgers's win chance rose from 47% to 61%.Melton 44-yd TD run, Rutgers goes ahead 7-3
  2. 2Q3 3:56 · Rutgers 7, Maryland 10Rutgers's win chance fell from 62% to 40%.Funk 44-yd TD run, Maryland goes ahead 10-7
  3. 3Q3 1:21 · Rutgers 14, Maryland 10Rutgers's win chance rose from 46% to 70%.Sitkowski 20-yd TD pass to Pacheco, Rutgers goes ahead 14-10
  4. 4Q4 7:59 · Rutgers 21, Maryland 17Rutgers's win chance rose from 41% to 73%.Melton 18-yd TD run, Rutgers goes ahead 21-17
  5. 5Q4 5:57 · Rutgers 21, Maryland 24Rutgers's win chance fell from 72% to 35%.Najarian 52-yd TD pass to Cobbs, Maryland goes ahead 24-21
  6. 6Q4 0:00 · Rutgers 24, Maryland 24Rutgers's win chance rose from 28% to 57%.Ambrosio 39-yd field goal, ties it 24-24

Rutgers'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 5:57 left in the 4th quarter, Maryland's chance to win went from 28 percent to 65 percent when Maryland scored a touchdown.

The score went from Rutgers 21, Maryland 17 to Rutgers 21, Maryland 24.

The play: Najarian 52-yd TD pass to Cobbs, Maryland goes ahead 24-21.

What happened next

  1. Rutgers's next game: L 21-28 vs Nebraska, Dec 18

    6 days later
  2. Maryland's first game of the 2021 season: W 30-24 vs West Virginia, Sep 4, 2021

    about 9 months later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Dec 12, 2020: Maryland 40, Rutgers 16, Nov 27, 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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