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Illinois beat Northwestern

Northwestern3-914
Illinois5-747Final
Sat, Nov 27 · Memorial Stadium, Champaign, Ill. · Crowd 27,624 · 41°, overcastBTN

Records are after this game.

Illinois beat Northwestern by 33 points.

How the game turned

Illinois aheadNorthwestern ahead
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Q1 8:26 Illinois 7, Northwestern 0

Illinois 79% to win

Barker 8-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 8:26 · Illinois 7, Northwestern 0Illinois's win chance rose from 65% to 79%.Barker 8-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 7-0

Illinois was never below a 64 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

Illinois led after every score.

It was Illinois's first win over Northwestern since the 2014 season, after 6 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Illinois finished the 2021 season 5-7.

  2. Northwestern finished the 2021 season 3-9.

  3. Illinois's first game of the 2022 season: W 38-6 vs Wyoming, Aug 27, 2022

    about 9 months later

  4. Northwestern's first game of the 2022 season: W 31-28 vs Nebraska, Aug 27, 2022

    about 9 months later

  5. The teams' next meeting after Nov 27, 2021: Illinois 41, Northwestern 3, Nov 26, 2022

    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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