Stony Brook at Ball State

Bet it or track it

Tap a price to send it to your DraftKings betslip. Tail it instead — or as well — and it gets graded into My Record once the game is final. Pushes are settled as pushes, which matters here: a 3 or a 7 is the most common margin in college football.

Returning production

* 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 13.5 the line sits just short of 14, so the games decided by exactly 14 fall on the favorite's side of this bet.
• The spread has moved from -14.5 to -13.5 since it opened, toward the away side. It crossed 14, changing the result in 2.7% of historical games.
• A total of 52.5 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.

Team profile

How games at these numbers have gone

• Spread 13.5 — the 10-14 point band. In 1,140 archived games at this number, the favorite covered 48.2% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (45.3–51.1%) is taken into account.
• Total 52.5 — this game's spread sits in the 7-14 point band. In 1,954 archived games with a spread this size, the over hit 48.6% of the time — a coin flip once the 95% range (46.4–50.8%) is taken into account.

Measured on our archive of FBS games with a closing line and a final score. Context, not a pick — see every band.