Regular season ·

Ohio State beat Penn State

No. 4 Ohio State7-120
No. 3 Penn State7-113Final
Sat, Nov 2 · Beaver Stadium, University Park, Pa. · Crowd 111,030 · 52°, clearFOX

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

Ohio State aheadPenn State aheadBiggest swing

Q1 5:37 Ohio State 0, Penn State 10

Ohio State 36% to win

Tracy return TD, Penn State leads 10-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 6:54 · Ohio State 0, Penn State 3Barker 29-yd field goal, Penn State goes ahead 3-0
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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

  1. Ohio State's next game: W 45-0 vs Purdue, Nov 9

    7 days later
  2. Penn State's next game: W 35-6 vs Washington, Nov 9

    7 days later
  3. The 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.

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