Regular season ·

Western Michigan beat Central Michigan

Western Michigan3-052
Central Michigan2-144Final
Wed, Nov 18 · Kelly/Shorts Stadium, Mount Pleasant, Mich. · 38°, overcastESPN2

Records are after this game.

Western Michigan beat Central Michigan by 8 points.

How the game turned

Western Michigan aheadCentral Michigan aheadBiggest swingLow: 17%
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Q2 7:03 Western Michigan 28, Central Michigan 14

Western Michigan 88% to win

Eleby 9-yd TD pass to Hall, Western Michigan leads 28-14

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 13:57 · Western Michigan 0, Central Michigan 7Western Michigan's win chance fell from 48% to 37%.Pimpleton 65-yd TD run, Central Michigan goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 7:03 · Western Michigan 28, Central Michigan 14Western Michigan's win chance rose from 73% to 88%.Eleby 9-yd TD pass to Hall, Western Michigan leads 28-14

Western Michigan'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 7:03 left in the 2nd quarter, Western Michigan's chance to win went from 73 percent to 88 percent when Western Michigan scored a touchdown.

The score went from Western Michigan 21, Central Michigan 14 to Western Michigan 28, Central Michigan 14.

The play: Eleby 9-yd TD pass to Hall, Western Michigan leads 28-14.

What happened next

  1. Central Michigan's next game: W 31-23 at Eastern Michigan, Nov 27

    9 days later

  2. Western Michigan's next game: W 30-27 vs Northern Illinois, Nov 28

    10 days later

  3. The teams' next meeting after Nov 18, 2020: Central Michigan 42, Western Michigan 30, Nov 3, 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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