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Published: October 30, 2009
The Central Michigan Chippewas from the MAC conference will travel to the Boston College Eagles from the ACC conference in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time is set for 3:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN U. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the home team Boston College Eagles opened as a 3 point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the favorite, as the Boston College Eagles are currently a 5-½ point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 50 for the bettors to play into. College football money line bettors can make a play on the favored Boston College Eagles at –205 with the road underdog Central Michigan Chippewas returning +175 to win straight up without the points on their side.
Central Michigan is 7-1 this season and winners of 7 in row since dropping their season opener at Arizona 19-6. Central Michigan has a win against a high profile opponent beating Michigan St 29-27. The past 6 Central Michigan opponents have been very weak non conference or MAC conference teams. This will be the best defense Central Michigan has faced since putting up only 6 points at Arizona. Senior quarterback Dan LeFevour has hit on 70% of his passes on the season with 16 touchdowns and 4 interceptions. But when he faced a quality defense at Arizona he could only complete 18 of 31 passes for a measly 108 yards with no touchdowns and 1 interception. Quarterback Dan LeFevour will run the ball as he has carried the ball 112 times for 522 yards for a 4.7 yards per play average. Central Michigan allows its opponents just 15 points per game and 330 yards per game. Arizona was able to run wild on Central Michigan with 246 yards on 46 carries. The Chippewas passing defense has gone south in their past 2 games allowing Bowling Green to hit on 343 passing yards last week and Western Michigan 410 yards. Central Michigan will be playing their third straight road game. Boston College is coming off a hard fought 20-16 loss at Notre Dame last week. The Eagles defense limited Jimmy Clausen to just 246 yards passing and only 2 touchdowns against the high flying Notre Dame Fighting Irish offense. Boston College is 5-0 at home this season averaging 39 points per game in front of their home folks. Freshman Boston College quarterback Dave Shinskie is hitting on just 52% of his passes with 10 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. He was accurate in his home games against Florida St hitting on 59% of his passes and was 62% accurate against Wake Forest. Montel Harris is the leading ball carrier for the Golden Eagles with 794 rushing yards on 156 carries for 5.1 yards per carry average. Harris was grounded last week at Notre Dame with just 38 yards on 22 carries.
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CFB Trend: Central Michigan Chippewas is 6-1 ATS this season
The Wagerline consensus has 66.8% of the CFB bettors on Boston College -5 1/2
The Wagerline consensus has 52.5% of the CFB bettors playing over 50
