Regular season ·

Illinois beat Northwestern

Illinois8-441
Northwestern1-113Final
Sat, Nov 26 · Ryan Field, Evanston, Ill. · Crowd 25,744 · 54°, cloudy

Records are after this game.

Illinois beat Northwestern by 38 points.

How the game turned

Illinois aheadNorthwestern ahead
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Q1 5:22 Illinois 7, Northwestern 0

Illinois 89% to win

Love 2-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 5:22 · Illinois 7, Northwestern 0Illinois's win chance rose from 83% to 89%.Love 2-yd TD run, Illinois goes ahead 7-0

Illinois was never below a 79 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.

A margin this large, 38 points, last came in this series in the 2000 season, going by our games data since 1970.

What happened next

  1. Northwestern finished the 2022 season 1-11.

  2. Illinois's next game: L 10-19 vs Mississippi State in the Reliaquest Bowl, Jan 2

    37 days later

  3. Northwestern's first game of the 2023 season: L 7-24 at Rutgers, Sep 3, 2023

    about 9 months later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Nov 26, 2022: Northwestern 45, Illinois 43, Nov 25, 2023

    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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