Northwestern at Illinois 2015

Drive chart

Northwestern Illinois bar spans the drive · tick marks the start

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PUNT

3 pl · 7 yd · 1:30

0–0

12 pl · 47 yd · 4:31

0–7

5 pl · 76 yd · 2:24

7–7

PUNT

3 pl · 4 yd · 1:05

7–7

12 pl · 57 yd · 4:09

14–7

PUNT

3 pl · 7 yd · 1:21

14–7

8 pl · 75 yd · 3:19

21–7

PUNT

6 pl · 27 yd · 2:05

21–7

PUNT

3 pl · -3 yd · 1:24

21–7

MISSED FG

6 pl · 18 yd · 2:16

21–7

PUNT

3 pl · 8 yd · 1:05

21–7

PUNT

3 pl · 3 yd · 1:36

21–7

PUNT

6 pl · 14 yd · 1:59

21–7

END OF HALF

9 pl · 29 yd · 1:16

21–7

PUNT

4 pl · 24 yd · 1:58

21–7

PUNT

3 pl · 8 yd · 1:18

21–7

PUNT

3 pl · -3 yd · 2:14

21–7

PUNT

3 pl · 8 yd · 1:12

21–7

PUNT

3 pl · 7 yd · 1:31

21–7

FUMBLE

7 pl · 22 yd · 2:44

21–7

ON DOWNS

5 pl · 13 yd · 1:53

21–7

INT TD

4 pl · 22 yd · 1:25

21–14

10 pl · 46 yd · 4:18

24–14

INT

7 pl · 50 yd · 1:38

24–14

PUNT

6 pl · 12 yd · 2:45

24–14

MISSED FG

8 pl · 51 yd · 2:54

24–14

PUNT

7 pl · 33 yd · 3:54

24–14

END OF GAME

2 pl · 32 yd · 0:16

24–14

28 drives. Field position runs left to right for both teams: 0 is the offense's own goal line, 100 the one it is attacking.

Defense

1	takeaways	2
5	three-and-outs forced	5
1 of 14	scoring drives allowed	4 of 14

No individual defensive box score for this game — CollegeFootballData carries tackles from 2016 on, and nothing but interceptions before that. The team numbers above come from the play and drive rows, which reach back to 2016 and 2015 respectively.

Special teams

1 of 1	field goals	0 of 2
8	punts	7
38.0	punt average	41.0
0	punts inside the 20	0
44	return yards	87
own 26	average drive start	own 29

Northwestern

K	Jack Mitchell	1/1 FG · long 39 · 3/3 XP
P	Hunter Niswander	8 punts · 38.0 avg
KR	Solomon Vault	2 ret · 28 yds · long 15
KR	Danny Vitale	1 ret · 16 yds · long 16

Illinois

K	Taylor Zalewski	0/2 FG · 2/2 XP
P	Ryan Frain	7 punts · 41.0 avg
KR	V'Angelo Bentley	3 ret · 68 yds · long 27
PR	V'Angelo Bentley	4 ret · 19 yds · long 17

K kicking, P punting, KR kick returns, PR punt returns. Average drive start counts only drives that began after a punt or a kickoff — a drive handed over by a takeaway is the defense's doing.

Series recent meetings

2025	Northwestern 13 – 20 Illinois
2024	Illinois 38 – 28 Northwestern
2023	Northwestern 45 – 43 Illinois
2022	Illinois 41 – 3 Northwestern
2021	Northwestern 14 – 47 Illinois
2020	Illinois 10 – 28 Northwestern
2019	Northwestern 29 – 10 Illinois
2018	Illinois 16 – 24 Northwestern

Last 8 meetings shown. Full all-time series sits on each team page.