Game Score: one number for how good a player's game was, from that game's box score alone (50 = an ordinary game). Not opponent-adjusted.
TEAM STATS
ILLINOIS
RUTGERS
419
TOTAL YARDS
386
89
PASSING YARDS
267
330
RUSHING YARDS
119
6.8
YARDS / PLAY
5.1
0
TURNOVERS
3
SITUATIONAL LINE
Team
Success %
3rd Down %
4th Down %
Explosive %
Red Zone TD %
ILLINOIS
39.3%
46.7%
100.0%
18.0%
50.0%
RUTGERS
42.7%
28.6%
50.0%
12.0%
33.3%
GARBAGE TIME REALITY CHECK
Final Score
“Real” Score (before garbage time)
ILLINOIS
38
31
RUTGERS
17
17
This game hit garbage time at Q4 5:07 — 21+ point lead, 14:00 or less remaining. The “real” score is frozen at the last genuinely competitive moment; it never changes any ranking or projection elsewhere on the site (see the Garbage Time Reality Check page for the full leaderboard).
Team
Success % (garbage-time-weighted)
3rd Down % (garbage-time-weighted)
Garbage Snaps / Total
ILLINOIS
38.2%
44.3%
5 / 61
RUTGERS
42.1%
30.0%
8 / 75
Weighted splits count each garbage-time snap as 35% of a competitive one toward these rates, rather than excluding or fully counting it — see SITUATIONAL LINE above for this game's unweighted numbers.
