Regular season ·
Indiana beat Illinois
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 19 Indiana beat No. 9 Illinois by 53 points.
How the game turned
Q1 9:26 Indiana 7, Illinois 0
Indiana 88% to win
Ponds TD return of a blocked punt, Indiana goes ahead 7-0
Big moments
- 1Q1 9:26 · Indiana 7, Illinois 0Indiana's win chance rose from 77% to 88%.Ponds TD return of a blocked punt, Indiana goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q1 8:24 · Indiana 7, Illinois 7Indiana's win chance fell from 88% to 75%.Altmyer 59-yd TD pass to Dixon, ties it 7-7
- 3Q1 4:41 · Indiana 14, Illinois 7Indiana's win chance rose from 84% to 87%.Mendoza 11-yd TD pass to Cooper, Indiana goes ahead 14-7
Indiana was never below a 71 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
Indiana took the lead for good with 4:41 left in the 1st quarter, Indiana 14, Illinois 7.
The 53-point margin is the largest in this series since 1970 in our games data, 42 meetings in all.
What happened next
Illinois went from No. 9 to No. 23 in the next AP poll.
Indiana's next game: W 20-15 at Iowa, Sep 27
7 days laterIllinois's next game: W 34-32 vs USC, Sep 27
7 days 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.