Regular season ·
Michigan State beat Illinois
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
Michigan State beat No. 14 Illinois by 8 points.
Illinois was No. 14 in the AP poll before the game; Michigan State was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q2 0:33 Michigan State 9, Illinois 7
Michigan State 32% to win
DeVito incomplete to Reiman, turnover on downs
Big moments
- 1Q1 8:03 · Michigan State 0, Illinois 7Michigan State's win chance fell from 11% to 9%.DeVito 60-yd TD pass to Williams, Illinois goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 10:21 · Michigan State 9, Illinois 7Thorne 1-yd TD pass to Mosley, Michigan State goes ahead 9-7
- 3Q2 0:33 · Michigan State 9, Illinois 7Michigan State's win chance rose from 12% to 32%.DeVito incomplete to Reiman, turnover on downs
- 4Q3 5:45 · Michigan State 16, Illinois 7Michigan State's win chance rose from 45% to 58%.Broussard 11-yd TD run, Michigan State leads 16-7
Michigan State's lowest chance to win was 7 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 0:33 left in the 2nd quarter, Michigan State's chance to win went from 12 percent to 32 percent on a failed fourth down.
The score stayed Michigan State 9, Illinois 7.
The play: Illinois on 4th down, DeVito incomplete to Reiman.
What happened next
Michigan State's next game: W 27-21 vs Rutgers, Nov 12
7 days laterIllinois's next game: L 24-31 vs Purdue, Nov 12
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 5, 2022: Illinois 38, Michigan State 16, Nov 16, 2024
about 2 years 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.

