Ball State Cardinals @ Northern Illinois Huskies

5-5, 3-3 MAC

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Ball State BALL	10	7	9	3	29
N Illinois NIU	0	17	3	10	30

Northern Illinois HuskiesN IllinoisNIU

7-3, 5-1 MAC

Game Information

Dekalb, IL

FBS

Mid-American Conference	CONF	OVR
Eastern Michigan	1-0	1-1
Buffalo	0-0	1-0
Massachusetts	0-0	1-0
Akron	0-0	0-1
Ball State	0-0	0-1
Bowling Green	0-0	0-1
Central Michigan	0-0	0-1
Kent State	0-0	0-1
Miami (OH)	0-0	0-1
Ohio	0-0	0-1
Toledo	0-0	0-1
Western Michigan	0-0	0-1
Sacramento State	0-1	1-1

Mountain West Conference	CONF	OVR
UNLV	1-0	1-1
North Dakota State	0-0	2-0
Air Force	0-0	1-0
Nevada	0-0	1-0
New Mexico	0-0	1-0
San José State	0-0	1-1
Northern Illinois	0-0	0-1
UTEP	0-0	0-1
Wyoming	0-0	0-1
Hawai'i	0-1	0-2

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