Date/Time: Wed, Nov 14 / 09:05:00 PM ET, Huskie Stadium, DeKalb, IllinoisThe Toledo Rockets (8-2, 5-1 MAC) travel to DeKalb on Wednesday to face the Northern Illinois Huskies (9-1, 6-0 MAC) in a game with Top 25 implications and MAC West Title on the line.
The Huskies, whose only reverse came in the season opener vs. Iowa, are 9-1 and will look for their 10th straight win when they welcome the Rockets at their home stadium. The two squads will meet in a rematch of last year’s game at the Glass Bowl, which the Huskies won by a 3-point margin (63-60) after quarterback Chandler Harnish’s completed his sixth touchdown pass of the game with only a few seconds left in the clock. The victory over Toledo catapulted the Huskies to win the Mid-American Conference West title and gave them the chance to play the Ohio Bobcats in the 2011 MAC championship game in Detroit.
Thanks to last week’s 63-0 win over the UMass Minutemen, the Huskies increased their winning streak at Huskie Stadium to 20 victories, the longest home record in the NCAA Football. So far this season, Northern Illinois has won five games at Huskie Stadium. In Fact, NIU hasn’t lost a game in DeKalb since September 26, 2009, when the Huskies suffered a 34-31 loss to Idaho. Additionally, the team has won a total of 15 MAC games at its home stadium, with the last reverse dating to Nov. 12, 2008 (33-30 overtime loss to Central Michigan).
For Toledo, a victory at Northern Illinois would revive its chances to contend for the MAC's West Division title. The 8-2 Rockets are coming off a painful 34-27 loss to Ball State. Until last week, the Rockets were ranked 23 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time since 2001, but the unexpected loss to the Cardinals left Toledo out of the AP Poll and distanced the team from first-place Northern Illinois in the MAC's West Division. Toledo's only previous loss this season came in its season opener when the Rockets loss 24-17 in overtime against the Arizona wildcats.
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Game Odds:
Toledo Rockets: +10.5-110, ML +310
Northern Illinois Huskies: -10.5-110, ML -380
Game Total: 63, o/u:-110
The Rockets lead the series versus Northern Illinois, 29-9, but have lost two of the last three games against the Huskies. Toledo has also won 11 out of 18 games played at Huskie Stadium and is 19-3 in their last 22 matches against MAC opponents.
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