Ball State at Northern Illinois (11/15/2011)

Away:  Ball State [6-4 ATS]
Home:  Northern Illinois [5-5 ATS]

Game Time: 8:00 PM
Stadium: Huskie Stadium

Recent Meetings:
11/20/10 - NOILL 59 vs. BALST 21
11/12/09 - BALST 20 vs. NOILL 26
11/05/08 - NOILL 14 vs. BALST 45

Team Leaders:

Ball State:
Passing: Keith Wenning (2233)
Rushing: Jahwan Edwards (681)
Receiving: Briggs Orsbon (498)

Northern Illinois:
Passing: Chandler Harnish (2256)
Rushing: Chandler Harnish (1022)
Receiving: Nathan Palmer (473)

More:
Live Odds
In-Depth Matchup Information
Consensus Betting Information

Northern Illinois - 33                             Ball St - 23

Cardinals +18.5                                   

In honor of mi amigo Irisheyez, I'm taking his Ball St CARDS PLUS THE GENEROUS NUMBER to give the Huskies all they can handle. Plus I like the fact that the Huskies have troubles covering as favs off bb ats wins.

Cardinals -  probably under  This Bud's for you Irish  

N ILL game I'm not too worried about the over as there game went under 65 last week Tuesday...It's Toledo on Tues that scares me

 I always like teams with balance offensive attack.  No Illinois rushing avg 250 yds/game & 235 passing yds/game and this will be Ball St's third road game.  As for the O/U, my calculation is 65 total points.

Nothern Illinois -17 in a close one

Under 71.5

Well so far Tuesday under record..

3-0 with totals ranging from 55-66

0-2 with totals ranging from 68-70 (0-2 with Tuesday Toledo games)

3-2 so far this season for Tuesday under.

The total for this one is ranging from 71.5 - 73.

Going under in this one is scary as both teams defense just flat out sucks...sorry no nicer way to put it. The only assuring thing for to keep this one under the total is that NIU seems to play better defense at home allowing 22ppg.

Here are some numbers for this game...

Ball St

7-3 ats as road underdogs of 10.5 - 21 points

5-2 ats off a conference rival win

4-2 ats vs conference opponent

NIU

6-4 ats as a home favorite

11-5 ats coming off a rival conference win

10-4 ats at home

4-2 ats vs conference opponent (3-0 ats this season)

This season 3-1 ats and 4-0 SU playing on Tuesday

First half stats...

Ball St avg 13 points ppg in the first half as the home team avg 25 ppg in the first half.

NIU avg 27 ppg at home in the first half while the road team avg 8 ppg in the first half.

Advantage = NIU in the first half

Ball St avg 22 ppg total on the road while the home team avg 36 total ppg.

NIU avg 46 ppg at home while the road team avg 22 ppg.

Advantage = NIU on final

Looking at avg points per game between the two if you take the under you better be prepared to squeeze your nuts. I'm looking at at total score between 68-75 points.

Anyway hope that helps....but numbers don't matter as anything can happen on any given day. Just provided some reading material basically

Good luck to everyone

I'll be back to post my play later if I do decide to touch this one