{"id":2555,"date":"2008-11-04T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/northern-illinois-ball-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:48:00","slug":"northern-illinois-ball-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/northern-illinois-ball-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Illinois-Ball State Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Scheumann Stadium will be treated to a game between the Northern Illinois Huskies and the Ball State Cardinals when they take their seats on Wednesday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 9\u00bd-point favorites versus the Huskies, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> got two field goals in the fourth quarter and earned a 16-13 victory over Bowling Green<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in Week 9. Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> failed to cover the 7-point spread, and the 29 points went UNDER the posted total of 48. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chandler Harnish ran for 116 yards and Me’co Brown had 95 yards off 20 carries in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nate Davis threw for two touchdowns to lead Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> to a 38-16 win over Eastern Michigan<\/st1:place> in Week 9. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals failed to cover the 26-point spread, while the combined score played just UNDER the day’s posted total of 57. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> has won 3 straight games.
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 8 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Northern Illinois<\/st1:place>: 5-3 SU, 5-2 <\/font>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName>
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 8-0 SU, 6-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Northern Illinois most recently:
When playing in November are 7-3
When playing on turf are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing within the conference are 5-5<\/p>\n

Ball State most recently:
When playing in November are 6-4
When playing on turf are 9-1
After outgaining opponent are 8-2
When playing within the conference are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Northern Illinois is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Northern Illinois is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Northern Illinois’s last 5 games
Northern Illinois is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Ball State
Ball State is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Ball State is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Ball State is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games
Ball State is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Northern Illinois<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> home to Central Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, November 12
Ball State at Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> (Ohio<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>), Tuesday, November 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at Scheumann Stadium will be treated to a game between the Northern Illinois Huskies and the Ball State Cardinals when they take their seats on Wednesday. Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 9\u00bd-point favorites versus the Huskies, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Northern Illinois got two field goals … Continue reading Northern Illinois-Ball State Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}