Regular season ·
Ohio State beat Penn State
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 4 Ohio State beat No. 3 Penn State by 7 points.
How the game turned
Q1 5:37 Ohio State 0, Penn State 10
Ohio State 36% to win
Tracy return TD, Penn State leads 10-0
Big moments
- 1Q1 6:54 · Ohio State 0, Penn State 3Barker 29-yd field goal, Penn State goes ahead 3-0
- 2Q1 5:37 · Ohio State 0, Penn State 10Ohio State's win chance fell from 54% to 36%.Tracy return TD, Penn State leads 10-0
- 3Q2 11:54 · Ohio State 14, Penn State 10Ohio State's win chance rose from 56% to 68%.Howard 21-yd TD pass to Inniss, Ohio State goes ahead 14-10
- 4Q4 10:13 · Ohio State 20, Penn State 13Ohio State's win chance rose from 76% to 87%.Fielding 39-yd field goal, Ohio State leads 20-13
Ohio State's lowest chance to win was 32 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 5:37 left in the 1st quarter, Penn State's chance to win went from 46 percent to 64 percent when Penn State scored a touchdown.
The score went from Ohio State 0, Penn State 3 to Ohio State 0, Penn State 10.
The play: Tracy return TD, Penn State leads 10-0.
What happened next
Ohio State's next game: W 45-0 vs Purdue, Nov 9
7 days laterPenn State's next game: W 35-6 vs Washington, Nov 9
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Nov 2, 2024: Ohio State 38, Penn State 14, Nov 1, 2025
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.

