This week has been tough in NCAAF we have not gotten it done yesterday's two games looked like we were on our way to winning until the 2nd half and 4th quarter of the UAB game just fell apart, but that's gambling.
Tonight expect a difficult game to watch both Ball State and Buffalo are extremely sloppy and love to turn the ball over. I'm however going with the better defense on Buffalo's side. More importantly Ball State is one of the few teams that have not had a bye week and they are coming on a short week after a double OT game against Akron a winless team ranked 120th in the nation in total offense.
Buffalo should be licking their chops with 2 extra days of preparation and finally facing a defense not ranked in the Top 60 which they have just 1 time in their last 7 games when they went on the road and beat Bowling Green 28-26. Ball State is bad on defense ranked 92nd and they haven't faced many good offenses so that ranking is bad for a reason. Buffalo which has only 19 point in their last 3 home games faced two top 15 scoring defenses in UCF and Temple in those gamea nd then faced a very good Miami Ohio defense. Tonight they catch a break and the difference will be the defense.
keith Wenning, Ball State true freshmen QB is not afraid of thorwing the pick 9 interceptions in his last three games against pass defenses ranked 111, 88, and 83 and now they'll face arguably the best secondary of the year with next level talent from Davonte Shannon at free safety who now is the career record for solo tackles at Buffalo and two talented CB's in Josh Thomas and Sherrod Lott who were burned by Ohio for TD's a week ago I think they will look to return to what they have done well force turnovers. They have 13 on the year Cook has six and Shannon has three. On offense I expect QB Alex Zordich to start using his feat more as he rushed for 105 yards vs. Ohio this adds another dynamic that a struggling Ball State team will have to defend.
