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College Football Handicapping Analysis: Week 13
Western Michigan Broncos (6-5) vs. Northern Illinois Huskies (8-3)
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm EST
Venue: Huskie Stadium
NCAA Football ATS Spread Odds: Broncos -4 / Huskies +4 (Bet Now!)
NCAA Football Moneyline Odds: W. Michigan -170 / N. Illinois +150
NCAA Betting Total Odds: O/U 62.5
Week 13 college football sees the Broncos and Huskies meet at Huskie Stadium.
The Broncos are favored by 4 points in this MAC matchup despite the fact that the Huskies will be the team playing in the MAC Championship game on December 4 at Ford Field. The Huskies have already clinched their spot in the title game because of the heads-up win over Central Michigan who are 1 game back in the West Division standings.
Western Michigan is essentially bowl eligible with 6 wins to show for the 2021 campaign, but they are 3 – 1 the last 4 games and that win over Illinois State might also be a concern should the Broncos lose this game and end the year at 6 – 6.
We have seen many a program be left out of the post-season with a .500 record because of an FCS win that holds no weight with the bowl committee. We can assume, however, that the MAC will need some representation in the early bowl games and there are a lot of teams dwindling around the 6-win mark.
The entire West Division could end up at .500 or better but the Broncos are the only team without a win inside the division in 2021 officially in last place coming into the final weekend.
Western Michigan Broncos
How often do we see a team favored that is in last place in the division playing the team that will be representing that same division in the conference title game? Well, we are seeing it now despite the fact that Western Michigan has played like shit in all 4 of the games they have played within the West Division.
The line setters are obviously expecting the Huskies to be looking ahead and playing this one safe knowing that the Conference Championship win is much more important than this game.
Granted, the Huskies could make life a little easier to ensure another MAC team lands in the post-season because 7 wins would leave no doubt that a bowl game was coming for the 2021 Western Michigan Broncos program.
The Broncos, as stated, aren’t playing well, to say the least, and last weekend was just another reason to wonder if this team deserves to be in a bowl game at all. The Broncos were up 21 – 9 on Eastern Michigan last time out and the defense gave the game away allowing the Eagle to score the final 13 points of the game to win 22 – 21.
The loss now has the Broncos with a 2 – 3 road record having to finish the season with this one last road game.
Kaleb Eleby still has a chance to topple the 3000-yard passing mark should he go out and have a reasonably good game on Tuesday. Eleby is up to 2,777 yards for the year and his 16 to 5 TD to INT ratio shows that he knows the importance of not turning over the ball.
Eleby is not the fastest dude out of the backfield but he has added 5 scores with his legs but Sean Tyler and LaDarius Jefferson will take that rock and run with it until the cows come home. Jefferson has already carried the ball 175 times this season and his 10 TD lead this team but Tyler has been even better in other ways.
Tyler has only been seen in the end zone 8 times but he also only needs 111 more yards to hit that all-important 1000-yard mark while averaging exactly 6 yards a rush.
Northern Illinois Huskies
The Huskies don’t need to even go out and play this game if they didn’t feel the need because they are going to be in the 2021 MAC title game and nothing can change that.
Obviously, the goal is to not get anyone hurt but it is hard for any coach to suggest to his program that any game is not worth winning. Conditions can change any situation, but this team was 0 – 6 in 2020 so asking his boys to underachieve with a higher goal doesn’t strike me as Thomas Haddock’s approach for any game.
It looked like the Huskies were going to ease their way to victory last time out as they carried a 24 – 10 lead nearing the end of the 3rd quarter over Buffalo. The Huskies ended up needing overtime to get past the Bulls and a failed field goal at the end of regulation almost cost the team the game.
Buffalo started their overtime drive and it looked they were going plow right into the end zone to start the extra session. A fumble ended the drive and on the first dash of overtime Clint Ratkovich ran the entire 25 yards on the first play of the possession to give the Huskies the Mac West Division title.
NCAA Football Handicapping Trends
- The Broncos are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 Tuesday games.
- The Broncos are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games overall.
- Broncos are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 meetings in Northern Illinois.
- The Broncos are 5-15-1 ATS in their last 21 meetings.
- The underdog is 5-0 ATS in their last 5 meetings.
- Huskies are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games overall.
4* Free Week 13 NCAA Betting Final Analysis:
I don’t think Western Michigan has the chops to walk into Northern Illinois even if the Huskies have nothing to lose here at home. That is the other part of the equation because the Huskies, indeed, can play with nothing to lose.
I really do think that the 0 – 6 campaign in 2020 will lead to this Huskies team actually going out and waiting to play well on Senior Day at Huskie Stadium. This is the final home game for a bunch of these guys and going out with a flop is not the way to head to the December 4th game with a trophy on the line.
4* Free Week 13 NCAA Betting Pick: Huskies +4
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