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Jacksonville State beat Western Kentucky

Western Kentucky4-317
Jacksonville State6-220Final
Tue, Oct 17 · JSU Stadium, Jacksonville, Ala. · Crowd 17,977 · 57°, clearESPNU

Records are after this game.

Jacksonville State had a 5 percent chance to win in the 4th quarter, by our win chance curve, and won 20-17, October 17, 2023.

How the game turned

Jacksonville State aheadWestern Kentucky aheadBiggest swingLow: 5%

Q4 0:00 Jacksonville State 20, Western Kentucky 17

Jacksonville State 100% to win

Karajic 41-yd field goal, Jacksonville State wins it 20-17

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 8:52 · Jacksonville State 0, Western Kentucky 7Jacksonville State's win chance fell from 20% to 17%.Reed 10-yd TD pass to Smith, Western Kentucky goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 8:36 · Jacksonville State 7, Western Kentucky 17Jacksonville State's win chance fell from 23% to 13%.Reed 3-yd TD pass to Helms, Western Kentucky leads 17-7
  3. 3Q4 4:40 · Jacksonville State 17, Western Kentucky 17Jacksonville State's win chance rose from 14% to 40%.Lewis 26-yd TD run, ties it 17-17
  4. 4Q4 0:00 · Jacksonville State 20, Western Kentucky 17Jacksonville State's win chance rose from 72% to 100%.Karajic 41-yd field goal, Jacksonville State wins it 20-17

Jacksonville State's lowest chance to win was 5 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, Jacksonville State's chance to win went from 72 percent to 99 percent when Jacksonville State kicked a field goal.

The score went from Jacksonville State 17, Western Kentucky 17 to Jacksonville State 20, Western Kentucky 17.

The play: Karajic 41-yd field goal, Jacksonville State wins it 20-17.

What happened next

  1. Western Kentucky's next game: L 29-42 vs Liberty, Oct 24

    7 days later
  2. Jacksonville State's next game: W 41-16 at Florida International, Oct 25

    8 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 17, 2023: Western Kentucky 19, Jacksonville State 17, Nov 30, 2024

    about 13 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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