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You can bet the UAB vs. Northern Illinois game where the Blazers are a -2.5 favorite.
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This is Tuesday's Boca Raton Bowl, the only College Football game being played on that day.
UAB comes into this game with a 10-3 record Straight Up.
Spencer Brown ran for 156 yards and a touchdown, Nick Vogel put UAB ahead with a field goal with 3:23 remaining, and the Blazers, who reinstated their program last season after a two-year hiatus, beat Middle Tennessee in the Conference USA championship.
Marcus Childers threw a touchdown pass -- his fourth of the game -- to D.J. Brown with 1:09 to go and Northern Illinois rallied from a 20-point, second-half deficit to take a 30-29 victory over Buffalo in the Mid-American Conference championship game.
ESPN’s expert sports handicapper Phil Steele writes of this game: “Only three bowl games feature a battle of conference champions, and this one falls directly into that category as the MAC champion takes on the C-USA champion. UAB comes in far superior statistically, having outgained their opponents by 100 yards per game, while NIU was outgained by 23 yards per game. The Huskies faced the much tougher schedule, with games against Iowa, Utah, Florida State and BYU outside of conference play and 10 total games against bowl teams this season. Talent wise, I give a slight edge at quarterback to NIU with Marcus Childers having a 15-10 TD-INT ratio while UAB's quarterbacks have combined for a 14-15 ratio.”
- Mary Montgomery, Gambling911.com
