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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%

The Western at Northern Iowa game will also be on Marquee Sports Network.  Game time is 1:00 PM.

WGEM Prediction:  #23 Northern Iowa 46, Western Illinois 10
 

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'
}
 
 

Predictions? Will we score at all? Remember when Gateway/MVFC games used to be good?

rocki wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 1:04 pm Predictions? Will we score at all? Remember when Gateway/MVFC games used to be good?

 

45-7
 

When you have trouble moving the ball, move vertically more than horizontally.  smh

That missed INT summarizes our season very well.  Gotta make plays.

UPDATE: That Kickoff goof does.
 

Soooooooooooooooooooooo depressing.

Here at UNI.  It’s SO bad…