Big Ten Championship ·
Big Ten Championship
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 3 Ohio State beat No. 15 Northwestern by 12 points, the Big Ten Championship.
It was played at a neutral site: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN.
The announced crowd was 3,178, in the 2020 season.
How the game turned
Q3 2:41 Ohio State 13, Northwestern 10
Ohio State 79% to win
Sermon 9-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 13-10
Big moments
- 1Q1 4:02 · Ohio State 3, Northwestern 7Ohio State's win chance fell from 80% to 79%.Porter 9-yd TD run, Northwestern goes ahead 7-3
- 2Q3 2:41 · Ohio State 13, Northwestern 10Ohio State's win chance rose from 57% to 79%.Sermon 9-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 13-10
Ohio State's lowest chance to win was 41 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 2:41 left in the 3rd quarter, Ohio State's chance to win went from 57 percent to 79 percent when Ohio State scored a touchdown.
The score went from Ohio State 6, Northwestern 10 to Ohio State 13, Northwestern 10.
The play: Sermon 9-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 13-10.
What happened next
Ohio State's next game: W 49-28 vs Clemson in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, Jan 1
13 days laterNorthwestern's next game: W 35-19 vs Auburn in the VRBO Citrus Bowl, Jan 1
13 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Dec 19, 2020: Ohio State 21, Northwestern 7, Nov 5, 2022
about 23 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.