My stacking percentages Forecast has Northern Illinois scoring 24 or 23 points to Central Michigan's 24 or 23 points with the slight moneyline edge to Northern Illinois. For both teams I assess equal probabilty to a team total of 23 or 24 points.
The non-predictive public gauge has Northern Illinois winning 28-26.
Seems like I haven't said this much recently but the spread has moved away from my forecast with a commensurate moneyline move. The Total is at my line.
This move against the line is tougher to explain with my numbers as I have a variety of forecasts and nearly all of them predict a closer game and some even the outright upset. An inefficiency could be getting exposed here.
When trying to capture numbers on the underdog as the line moves form 3.5 it makes some sense that there is support on Cent. Mich at 6 but of course even more at 6.5.
Pinny sits there, and not many others do with -6.5 at even money. It will be interesting to see if the market will tolerate a broad 6.5 across the board and, if so, for how long.
The forecasts like +6.5, even if it approaches -115, and the dog moneyline at better than +200.
Based on market metrics not mentioned and the forecasts, at this point in trading, this game seems like a good candidate for the strategy to pick up Central Mich on the moneyline at better than 2-1 and once they take the lead early, look to sell back into an equity situation.
There's still some trading left here, but I'm watching this line closely.