#Western Illinois

The Western Illinois Leathernecks (9-8, 2-4 Summit) will try to stop a three-game road slide when taking on the UMKC Kangaroos (7-11, 3-2 Summit) on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at Swinney Recreation Center, airing at 8:00 PM ET. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Kangaroos' (-244 to win on the…

The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (13-4, 4-0 Summit) look to extend a nine-game home winning stretch when hosting the Western Illinois Leathernecks (9-7, 2-3 Summit) on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Golden Eagles' (-1636 to win on the moneyline) matchup…

The Western Illinois Leathernecks (8-6, 1-2 Summit) aim to extend a five-game home winning run when hosting the Omaha Mavericks (5-10, 1-2 Summit) on Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Leathernecks' (-205 to win on the moneyline) game against the Mavericks…

Syracuse football will culminate its 2022 season on Thursday afternoon in the Big Apple, as the Orange will take on Big Ten Conference team Minnesota in the 2022 Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl. After starting out 6-0 this fall, the'Cuse lost five in a row as the squad's schedule became more challenging. In late November, Syracuse football pulled out…

It was an eventful summer for Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher, who openly challenged the most powerful man in college football, and the first month of the season has been a similarly wild ride for his Aggies. After getting upset by Appalachian State on Sept. 10, Texas A&M rebounded by grinding out low-scoring victories over Miami and Arkansas. An…

The No. 16 Penn State Nittany Lions will look to continue their recent dominance over the Minnesota Golden Gophers when they meet in a key Big Ten Conference crossover matchup on Saturday. Although the Gophers (4-2, 1-2) won the last meeting, a 31-26 win at Minnesota in 2019, the Nittany Lions (5-1, 2-1) have won five of the past seven meetings.…

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - No. 8 Holy Cross (12-0, 6-0 PL) travels to No. 1 South Dakota State (11-1, 8-0 MVFC), the Missouri Valley Football Conference Champion in the NCAA DI FCS Championship Quarterfinal Round on Saturday at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium, in Brookings, S.D. Live coverage on ESPN begins at noon ET with Clay Matvick, Rocky Boiman and Taylor…

FARGO - The good news for Samford: North Dakota State has been eliminated from the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs more times in the quarterfinals than any other round. The Bison lost at Eastern Washington in 2010 and at Sam Houston in the COVID spring 2021 mess. Winners of nine FCS national championships since first making the playoffs…

BROOKINGS - South Dakota State was well-represented on the Missouri Valley Football Conference's all-conference teams, and at the forefront was longtime coach John Stiegelmeier, who was named the MVFC coach of the year for the second time (2016) in his career. Under Stiegelmeier's guidance, the Jackrabbits went 10-1 overall during the regular…

The Big Ten saw plenty of surprises last season. Michigan won the conference for the first time since 2004 and went to the College Football Playoff, while Ohio State and Michigan State played in New Year's Six bowls. In the conference's West division, Minnesota recovered from a down 2020 to win nine games, as did Purdue, which notched its highest…

The UCF Knights (1-1) face the Western Illinois Leathernecks (2-1) at 7:00 PM ET on Monday, November 14, 2022 on ESPN+. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Knights' (to win on the moneyline) game with the Leathernecks (). The betting facts in this article use the latest odds as of November 14, 2022 at…

FARGO - The biggest victory of Southern Illinois head coach Nick Hill's career came in the COVID-delayed spring season of 2021. The Salukis rolled North Dakota State 38-14 in Carbondale, ending the Bison's FCS record 39-game winning streak. Make of that game what you will considering the makeshift spring season was an unfortunate joke, but it…

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Finally the NCAAB schedule tips off on Monday, and for the Western Illinois Leathernecks and Illinois State Redbirds, it is two similarly positioned programs. They meet at 8 p.m. ET at CEFCU Arena in Normal, Illinois, for their season opener. With each team starting at 0-0 in the college basketball standings, it's an opportunity to avoid a…

The 2022-23 college basketball season is here! Each week, we'll take a look at the different Big East college basketball games and highlight a few standout games. As the season unwinds, we'll include a weekly section for standings and records, but everyone's got a clean slate as things tip off. This opening week slate, overall, is loaded with…

Iowa State tops the preseason rankings in a very talented Big 12 Conference The Big 12 of the past seemed like a simple projection: Put Baylor at the top. That is no longer the case. The rest of the conference has caught up. Last season, Baylor did end the regular season atop the conference and secured a share of its 12th consecutive Big 12…

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Hannah Haithcock couldn't help but smile when thinking about this upcoming season for the University of Southern Indiana women's basketball team. The senior forward is aware that there will probably be more times than not when her team is considered the underdog. That's natural when you're a newcomer to Division I. But what…

When last we saw the Oklahoma Sooners, they were getting whacked 49-0 by their archrival. So of course this week, the Sooners-who have given up 145 points in three consecutive defeats-are … favored? By more than a touchdown? Against an opponent that's 5-1 straight-up and 5-0-1 against the spread? We're not sure how much room is left on the "Fade…

A huge win over Iowa on Saturday has put the Illinois football team in the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2011. Seeing the Illini in the rankings is something I didn't think I would witness this soon in the Bret Bielema era. But Illinois has earned the No. 24 spot with their 5-1 start to the 2022 campaign. Next up is a tough Minnesota…

It is crazy to think that we are almost a month into the season already. While some teams are still facing weaker teams from weaker conferences (oh no, Georgia versus Kent State), others begin conference play. Will the Arkansas-Texas A&M game show an SEC capable of competing against Alabama and Georgia? Can Wisconsin surprise Ohio State on the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- We labeled the Ohio State Buckeyes as The Kings of the North in our preseason series, as we divided college football not by conferences but by geographic area -- North, South and Southwest. In the North, we placed 29 of the 65 teams from power conferences: * All 14 Big Ten teams * The six teams in the top half of the Pac-12:…

The FCS season is rolling along and this week may be the biggest yet, at least in terms of the magnitude of games. Conference play is starting for several teams and lots of those teams have very important games on the slate this week. Here's what to watch this week around the subdivision. #10 Chattanooga Tries to Topple Illinois The Mocs (3-0) have…

The Michigan State Spartans will face the Minnesota Golden Gophers on Saturday afternoon at Spartan Stadium. Minnesota opened its campaign by dominating Western Illinois, New Mexico State, and Colorado at home. Prior to last week's road loss to Washington, Michigan State had victories over Western Michigan and Akron. Minnesota has been preparing…

When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, Michigan TV: BTN Radio: KFAN, 100.3 FM Weather: 59 degrees, cloudy, 8 mph north wind Betting favorite: Minnesota, minus-3 Records: Minnesota is 3-0 after blowing out lower-level nonconference foes Colorado, New Mexico State and Western Illinois by a combined score of 149-17. Michigan…

The Minnesota Golden Gophers will be on the road for the first time this season when they face the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday. Minnesota took care of business at home to open its campaign, blowing out New Mexico State, Western Illinois and Colorado. Michigan State, meanwhile, picked up wins over Western Michigan and Akron before losing…

MINNESOTA -- It's hard to glean just how good the University of Minnesota football team might be after its nonconference schedule, but after three dominant wins, there are a lot of sources of encouragement. The sample size will continue to grow, as will the caliber of opposition starting this weekend. Minnesota (3-0) heads into the Big Ten opener…

This column finally broke out of its rut in Week 3 of the college football season, going 3-1 by correctly predicting an easy Mississippi win over circling-the-drain Georgia Tech and two unders in Texas A&M-Miami and Kansas State-Tulane. The only loss was Fresno State failing to keep up with USC after its quarterback suffered a high-ankle sprain in…

Week four of the college football season is right around the corner, meaning that more Big Ten teams will be getting into the swing of conference play. Maryland will be one of eight Big Ten teams gearing up for its first league game of the year. The Terps aced their nonconference slate and are off to a 3-0 start. SMU gave Maryland a big-time scare,…

You might say the Big Ten had it … ruff on Saturday. Well, not during the daylight in Ann Arbor, where Jim Harbaugh's bite was just big as his bark as Michigan football took on the Huskies of Connecticut with a convincing (in case the $1.8 million check U-M cut UConn didn't tell you enough about the two teams) 59-0 victory. In Evanston, however,…

Week 3 of the college football season proves to be massive for a number of teams, and the Big Ten is at the forefront of the landscape. Although a few teams have one conference game under their belt, this Saturday will be the final week before we get into the real meat of the schedule with a large number of conference matchups starting next…

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The scheduling gods blessed the Missouri football team with the perfect cure for a Manhattan hangover: a cold glass of FCS. Fresh off their 40-12 thrashing at Kansas State, Eli Drinkwitz's Tigers (1-1) return home Saturday to host Abilene Christian (2-0), a team from the Football Championship Subdivision, the Division I level one…

The Gophers' red-hot offense will eventually pull away on Saturday, but we expect the Buffs to hang around in the first half. Find out why we're backing the Buffaloes for the first two quarters in our Colorado vs. Minnesota betting picks. The Minnesota Golden Gophers look to continue their hot start to the 2022 college football season when they…

One of the best running backs in college football will be on display when Mohamed Ibrahim and the Minnesota Golden Gophers (2-0) host the Colorado Buffaloes (0-2) on Saturday, September 17, 2022. In their last outing, the Golden Gophers took down the Western Illinois Leathernecks 62-10. The Buffaloes' most recent game ended in a 41-10 loss to the…

Hawaii is 0-2 in the Timmy Chang era, and it's not looking good for the Rainbow Warriors when they come to Ann Arbor on Saturday night. The Warriors lost both games in blowout fashion, to Vanderbilt and Western Kentucky, and now comes to The Big House to take on No. 4 Michigan. Some outlets have the spread as high as 51.5 in favor of the…

Week Zero gave FCS fans an appetizer for what lies ahead this weekend. Week One is finally here and there's a full slate of games to consume in the coming days. Whether your team is taking on an FBS powerhouse, at home hosting a DII school or just gearing up for a big showdown, there's certainly a game for you over the next four days. The CAA got a…

MUNCIE, Ind. - Ball State football began fall camp last week and had its first day in full pads Tuesday. The Cardinals, who have been bowl eligible in back-to-back seasons, are coming off a lackluster 2021 season considering the expectations that followed a 2020 season that saw them win their first bowl game and finish ranked. Many of the players…