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Published: October 28, 2009
The Michigan Wolverines will travel in Big Ten conference action when they face the Illinois Fighting Illini in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time in Illinois is scheduled for 3:30PM Eastern Time with regional coverage provided by ABC. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the Michigan Wolverines opened as an 8-½ point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the home underdog Illinois Fighting Illini, as the Michigan Wolverines are currently a 7-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 53 for the betting public to bet into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Michigan Wolverines at –275 with the home underdog Fighting Illini returning +235 to win out right without the points spread a factor in the money line bet.
Michigan is going through a struggle as the Wolverines are losers of 3 of their past 4 games. Freshman quarterback Tate Forcier has been inconsistent this season. Forcier is hitting on 55% of his passes with 9 touchdowns and 5 interceptions on the season. But the test for Forcier was against two good defenses in Iowa and Penn St and Forcier could hit on no better than 42% completion percentage in those two games which all resulted in losses. Forcier has no touchdown passes in his past three games. Michigan is 5-3 on the season and is in search for another win to become bowl eligible. Senior running back Carlos Brown returned to the Michigan backfield last week after missing the past two games. Brown had only 8 carries last week for 35 yards. Michigan’s defense has been the teams Achilles heel giving up an average of 367 yards per game and 5.3 yards per play average against ranking 8th in the Big 10. Illinois is the 11th and last ranked defense in the Big Ten. The Fighting Illini gives up an average of 415 yards per game and 6.2 yards per play against their defense. Illinois is coming off a 24-14 loss at Purdue last week. Illinois has struggled big time for points scoring no more than 17 points in any of their games against division 1 teams this season. Senior quarterback Juice Williams has struggled this season. He has been benched this season but is now the starting quarterback for Illinois. Juice Willaims is hitting on 55% of his passes this season with 4 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. On the ground sophomore running back Mikel LeShoure is coming off a nice performance last week running for 78 yards on 12 carries for a 6.5 yards per rush average. Illinois is 1-6 on the season with their only win coming home to Illinois State. Another loss by the Fighting Illini and the team will become ineligible for a bowl berth.
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CFB Trend: Illinois is 1-4 ATS in their past 5 games.
The Wagerline consensus has 71.3% of the CFB bettors on Michigan –7
