Bowling Green Falcons

The Falcons lost 3.94 moneyline units as favorites in 2025, the worst figure in FBS, and covered once in six games when laying points. As an underdog Bowling Green covered four of six.

Laying points

Bowling Green was favored six times and won two. The four losses: 6-27 to Central Michigan at -3.5, 21-24 at Kent State at -7.5, 3-28 to Buffalo at -2.5 and 16-19 to Akron at -2.5. The opener, 26-7 over Lafayette at -21.5, was a win that missed. The one cover was the last game, 45-14 at UMass at -14. Only 13 FBS teams covered a smaller share as favorites; two matched.

Getting points

Underdog six times: 2-4 straight up, 4-2 against the spread, 1.1 units up. The wins were 23-13 over Liberty at +190 and 28-23 over Toledo at +320. The covers in defeat came against the biggest numbers on the schedule, 20-34 at Cincinnati at +21.5 and 17-40 at Louisville at +25.5.

Home and road

At home the moneyline made 2.16 units over six games. Away it lost all five priced games, five units; one FBS team did worse on the road and eight matched. The road win at UMass had no price.

Points and the total

The Falcons scored 20.5 points a game; only 19 FBS teams scored fewer. Seven of 12 went under, and in the run from Central Michigan to Akron, five straight games, they scored 67 points and lost all five. November cost three units.

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