Regular season ·
Kent State beat Akron
Records are after this game.
Kent State beat Akron by 34 points.
How the game turned
Q1 12:05 Kent State 7, Akron 0
Kent State 97% to win
Cooper 3-yd TD run, Kent State goes ahead 7-0
Big moments
- 1Q1 12:05 · Kent State 7, Akron 0Cooper 3-yd TD run, Kent State goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q1 4:49 · Kent State 14, Akron 7Kent State's win chance rose from 94% to 96%.Crum 15-yd TD run, Kent State goes ahead 14-7
- 3Q2 9:56 · Kent State 21, Akron 14Kent State's win chance rose from 95% to 96%.Crum 75-yd TD pass to McKoy, Kent State goes ahead 21-14
- 4Q2 5:42 · Kent State 28, Akron 21Kent State's win chance rose from 93% to 95%.Cooper 19-yd TD run, Kent State goes ahead 28-21
- 5Q2 0:15 · Kent State 35, Akron 28Kent State's win chance rose from 90% to 93%.Crum 11-yd TD pass to Poke, Kent State goes ahead 35-28
Kent State was never below a 90 percent chance to win. 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
Kent State took the lead for good with 0:15 left in the 2nd quarter, Kent State 35, Akron 28.
A margin this large, 34 points, last came in this series in the 2002 season, going by our games data since 1970.
What happened next
Kent State's next game: L 41-70 at Buffalo, Nov 28
11 days laterAkron's next game: L 7-38 vs Miami (OH), Nov 28
11 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 17, 2020: Kent State 38, Akron 0, Nov 20, 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.