Regular season ·
Northern Illinois beat Ball State
Records are after this game.
Northern Illinois beat Ball State by 1 point.
How the game turned
Q4 0:00 Northern Illinois 30, Ball State 29
Northern Illinois 100% to win
Richardson 32-yd field goal, Northern Illinois wins it 30-29
Big moments
- 1Q1 5:46 · Northern Illinois 0, Ball State 3Lewis 43-yd field goal, Ball State goes ahead 3-0
- 2Q3 13:46 · Northern Illinois 17, Ball State 19Matt Ference punt blocked by Hassan Littles, punt out-of-bounds for a SAFETY blocked by Hassan Littles for a SAFETY
- 3Q4 2:42 · Northern Illinois 27, Ball State 26Northern Illinois's win chance rose from 33% to 52%.Ducker 10-yd TD run, Northern Illinois goes ahead 27-26
- 4Q4 1:42 · Northern Illinois 27, Ball State 29Northern Illinois's win chance fell from 51% to 36%.Lewis 48-yd field goal, Ball State goes ahead 29-27
- 5Q4 0:00 · Northern Illinois 30, Ball State 29Northern Illinois's win chance rose from 52% to 100%.Richardson 32-yd field goal, Northern Illinois wins it 30-29
Northern Illinois's lowest chance to win was 11 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 0:00 left in the 4th quarter, Northern Illinois's chance to win went from 52 percent to 99 percent when Northern Illinois kicked a field goal.
The score went from Northern Illinois 27, Ball State 29 to Northern Illinois 30, Ball State 29.
The play: Richardson 32-yd field goal, Northern Illinois wins it 30-29.
What happened next
Northern Illinois's next game: W 33-27 at Buffalo, Nov 17
7 days laterBall State's next game: L 17-37 vs Central Michigan, Nov 17
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 10, 2021: Ball State 44, Northern Illinois 38, Oct 1, 2022
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.