Sat, Sep 5 · 12:30 PM ET
Ball State at Ohio State
Ohio State favored by 50.5 · total 55.5
Game has kicked off — lines shown are the pre-kickoff close.
Ball StateCardinals
Away · Mid-American
+50.5
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Ohio StateBuckeyes
Home · Big Ten
-50.5
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Returning production
| Ball State | Ohio State | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 6% | 68% |
| Passing | 0% | 94% |
| Rushing | -104%* | 55% |
| Receiving | 32% | 50% |
* Outside 0–100% on purpose — production is PPA-weighted, so a departing player who cost his team yards pushes the share above 100 and a returning group with negative combined output shows below zero.
The read
- Forecast winds around 18 mph. Across 2,065 outdoor games, windy ones scored about 4 points fewer than calm ones — but the market moves its total to match, and backing the under in wind lost money at every threshold we tested. Conditions, not an edge.
- 84% chance of rain at kickoff.
- A total of 55.5 sits on the high side of real college football scores (the median FBS game lands on 54). That places the number; it does not predict the result — overs land almost exactly 50% against closing totals.
- SP+ and the market differ by 8.6 points — the market rates the home side higher. Worth knowing, but not a signal: we backtested betting that disagreement and it went 49.8% against the spread, versus the 52.4% needed to break even.
Team profile
With the ball
Without it
Last three seasons
Ball State
12-10 ATS · 6-16 SU
13-8-1 O/U · 5-8 away
Ohio State
19-10 ATS · 25-4 SU
10-19 O/U · 10-5 home
A record, not a signal — we measured team-level situational splits at 50% against the spread. Useful for knowing a team, not for picking one.
How games at these numbers have gone
- Spread 50.5 — the 35+ point band. In 449 archived games at this number, the favorite covered 48.1% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (43.5–52.7%) is taken into account.
- Total 55.5 — this game's spread sits in the 28+ point band. In 715 archived games with a spread this size, the over hit 54.5% of the time (95% range 50.9–58.2%), against a 52.38% break-even rate at −110.
Measured on our archive of FBS games with a closing line and a final score. Context, not a pick — see every band.
SP+ team strength · 2026
SP+ implies Ohio State -41.9 versus the market's -50.5 — a 8.6-point disagreement.
Context, not a pick — tap the for what these numbers mean and what we measured.
Line movement
Spread (home)
-50.5 → -50.5unmoved
Total
56.5 → 55.5-1.0
"From" is the first price we recorded, not necessarily the market open — DraftKings publishes no opening number, so we only claim what we saw.
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