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Western Illinois (0-8) @ Northern Iowa Panthers (5-3)
Date: 11/4/2023
Kickoff: 1:00 PM (Central)
Location: UNI-Dome, Cedar Falls, IA
Media: ESPN+, Q98.1 FM
UNI's Record
UNI is 5-3 overall and 4-1 in the MVFC. They started the season with a 30-9 loss at FBS Iowa State, then hosted Weber State, who they also lost to, 34-17. They won out at Idaho State, 41-17, then came back home to open the MVFC season with a 44-41 win over Youngstown State. They then won 27-20 at Indiana State, then lost 41-6 at South Dakota State. Back home again, for a 27-0 win over North Dakota, and on the road where they beat Illinois State 24-21. Last year's matchup with the Panthers was a 52-17 victory for UNI.
I'm not going to spend much time on this...UNI is pretty decent, we are bad. Here's the stat comparison between the two teams.
Massey says we have a 4% chance of winning this game, with a projected score of 42-13 for UNI: https://masseyratings.com/game.php?gid=938288358
Meanwhile our chances against Indiana State the next week have fallen to 28%
11/4/23 - at Northern Iowa
Scott Lawson - Board Admin
Western Illinois University Alum/Fan/Employee
Member of the Marching Leathernecks - 1996-2000
Western Illinois University Alum/Fan/Employee
Member of the Marching Leathernecks - 1996-2000
- sealhall74
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This week, I added all FBS stats and scores for the last 2 years to my neural network. Now I can predict any and all FBS and FCS games. I retrained the network using only the B1G data and with the newly trained, not necessarily smarter network, our current stats still dont do much for us against the Panthers.
{
team1: { id: 'Western Ill.', score: 1.154 },
team2: { id: 'UNI', score: 52.988 },
Note: 'Team 1 assumed to be visitor team'
}
Lets also see how Iowa fares against Northwestern at Wrigley Field today.
{
Game: 'Matchup',
team1: { id: 'Iowa', score: 23.136 },
team2: { id: 'Northwestern', score: 12.458 },
Note: 'Team 1 assumed to be visitor team'
}
{
team1: { id: 'Western Ill.', score: 1.154 },
team2: { id: 'UNI', score: 52.988 },
Note: 'Team 1 assumed to be visitor team'
}
Lets also see how Iowa fares against Northwestern at Wrigley Field today.
{
Game: 'Matchup',
team1: { id: 'Iowa', score: 23.136 },
team2: { id: 'Northwestern', score: 12.458 },
Note: 'Team 1 assumed to be visitor team'
}
Embrace the pace of the race.
- sealhall74
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When you have trouble moving the ball, move vertically more than horizontally. smh
Embrace the pace of the race.
- sealhall74
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That missed INT summarizes our season very well. Gotta make plays.
UPDATE: That Kickoff goof does.
UPDATE: That Kickoff goof does.
Embrace the pace of the race.