Featured College Selection

Central Michigan - 11 ½ over Ohio U (MAC Championship Game at Detroit, MI - Friday) - CMU was clearly the best team in the MAC, going 8-0 in conference play (7-1 ATS) and winning by an average of 23 points per game. Ohio U convincingly won last week's showdown with Temple to advance to this game and the Bobcats were a solid 7-1 in conference play (6-2) but were not nearly as dominating as CMU, winning by just 8 ppg. CMU has most of the edges in this game including experience, better stats on both sides of the football, recent head to head success and the better QB. Both teams were 2-2 in non-MAC play with CMU winning at Michigan State but losing at Arizona and Boston College. Ohio lost at home to UConn and at Tennessee but won by just 1 point at North Texas. In 2006 CMU defeated Ohio U in this game 31-10 as 3.5 point favorites and won last season at Ohio 31-28, pushing as a 3 point choice. This is a much bigger line to cover but CMU is much stronger than in those recent meetings while Ohio is at pretty much the same level. Central Michigan wins 33-16.