Regular season ·
Northwestern beat Illinois
Records are after this game.
Northwestern beat Illinois by 2 points.
How the game turned
Q4 (no clock) Northwestern 42, Illinois 31
Northwestern 91% to win
Wallace fumble return TD, Northwestern leads 42-31
Big moments
- 1Q1 8:54 · Northwestern 7, Illinois 0Northwestern's win chance rose from 45% to 55%.Bryant 10-yd TD pass to Johnson, Northwestern goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 1:09 · Northwestern 14, Illinois 20Northwestern's win chance fell from 49% to 25%.Scott interception return TD, Illinois goes ahead 20-14
- 3Q4 13:12 · Northwestern 28, Illinois 31Northwestern's win chance fell from 57% to 29%.Williams 14-yd TD pass to Bryant, two-point try good, Illinois goes ahead 31-28
- 4Q4 10:04 · Northwestern 35, Illinois 31Northwestern's win chance rose from 27% to 55%.Bryant 8-yd TD run, Northwestern goes ahead 35-31
- 5Q4 (no clock) · Northwestern 42, Illinois 31Northwestern's win chance rose from 55% to 91%.Wallace fumble return TD, Northwestern leads 42-31
Northwestern's lowest chance to win was 19 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
In the 4th quarter, Northwestern's chance to win went from 55 percent to 91 percent when Northwestern scored a touchdown.
The score went from Northwestern 35, Illinois 31 to Northwestern 42, Illinois 31.
The play: Wallace fumble return TD, Northwestern leads 42-31.
What happened next
Northwestern's next game: W 14-7 vs Utah in the Srs Distribution Las Vegas Bowl, Dec 23
28 days laterIllinois finished the 2023 season 5-7.
Illinois's first game of the 2024 season: W 45-0 vs Eastern Illinois, Aug 29, 2024
about 9 months laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 25, 2023: Illinois 38, Northwestern 28, Nov 30, 2024
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.