RE: 2026 Week 9 Prediction Thread
Bold means the winner; underline means the team beating the spread.
Kent State -7.5 vs Sacramento State
*Kent State has an offense that struggles -- unless you're an 'easy' team. Against @South Carolina they scored 0. Against @Ohio State they scored 3. Against Ohio they scored 10. Against @Western Michigan they scored 7. Against @South Florida they scored 0 by offense, but got a safety. But against FCS Wofford they only scored 14 going into the 4th Q, but made it 36 with a blowout 4th Q. They scored 26 against Ball State, an 35 against Akron. Now they'll be playing against a team who's on the level of bottom-FBS or any FCS that isn't in the Top 20 there. Sacramento State, suddenly out of FCS who wasn't bad in FCS, but not a ranked-level team within or anything -- has $$. They joined the MAC, and @EMU played an opening close-ish game losing by only 11 and scored 17 pts. But outside of that, Sac State only scored 17 again against any FBS team in their last game, @Ball State. Their only win was a blowout 52-0 win against a poor FCS, but they otherwise hardly scored and gave up good points per game, sans EMU 'only' 4 TDs. Outside of @EMU, their FCS opponent, and Ball State games -- they scored 3, 10, 6, 10, 7 points. Enter Kent State. Their D is decent, but their O can only score decently when they play a poor team. This is @Sac State, and their first year in FBS -- but expect Kent State by default, to solidly establish themselves at the end of the game with a solid win.
Kent State 34, Sacramento State 13
Bowling Green vs Western Michigan -13.5
*WMU had an off-game & solid game at times against @Toledo last week. Toledo was inconsistent thru that game, like they are in most offensively super-strong games with a sub-par D. WMU could have won, as WMU's O was stronger than they usually have been this year, but their D just gave so much away. Look for WMU back at home to have their D adjusted with their O not feeling they bring a lack of anything to a game after last week. BGSU though, is frustrated. Thank god this is on the road for them, as low chance BGSU will fully step-up. BGSU lost to South Florida only by 14-6, Ball State by 1pt in OT, and last week @Buffalo by a TD. They also lost their opener at home vs now clear #1 FCS team, but by only a TD. So BGSU can step up, at 2-6, beating @Miami and Sac State, and much of their Close losses -- but WMU wants to make up for their @Toledo loss, as if they played more soundly, they would have won that game. However, BGSU can play on the road and have the functional ability to make this a barn-burner -- and do through some of the game. But WMU holds on, to win it out as this isn't BGSU right after winning @Miami & Sac State, with them potentially in all gears mentally, due to only being 2-6 now.
Bowling Green 20, Western Michigan 30
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