Sat, Oct 24 · 3:35 PM ET
Sacramento State at Ball State
Ball State favored by 14.5 · total 51.5
Game has kicked off — lines shown are the pre-kickoff close.
Sacramento StateHornets
Away · Mid-American
+14.5
+440
ML
Ball StateCardinals
Home · Mid-American
-14.5
-600
ML
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Returning production
| Sacramento State | Ball State | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | — | 6% |
| Passing | — | 0% |
| Rushing | — | -104%* |
| Receiving | — | 32% |
* 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
- At 14.5 the line sits just past 14, so the games decided by exactly 14 fall on the underdog's side of this bet.
- The spread has moved from -14 to -14.5 since it opened, toward the home side.
- A total of 51.5 sits right around the middle 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 13.1 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 · 7-2 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 14.5 — the 14-17 point band. In 708 archived games at this number, the favorite covered 52.8% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (49.1–56.5%) is taken into account.
- Total 51.5 — this game's spread sits in the 14-21 point band. In 1,186 archived games with a spread this size, the over hit 47.0% of the time, so the other side has been the more frequent of the two — though still short of the 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 Ball State -1.4 versus the market's -14.5 — a 13.1-point disagreement.
Context, not a pick — tap the for what these numbers mean and what we measured.
Line movement
Spread (home)
-14 → -14.5-0.5
Total
51.5 → 51.5unmoved
"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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