Adding ODU -29.
ODU is playing on the road at Norfolk State which is about 5 miles away. Norfolk St is a MEAC school. ODU has only seen 1 MEAC school this year, beating Howard 76-19 at home. Not a ton has changed from that game except ODU's defense has gotten a lot stronger and actually were able to slow down PItt a little last week. Slight concern about ODU off an FBS road game they thought they should have won, but this is a rivalry game, at least to NSU who has been around a lot longer and resent ODU's sudden and quick emergence. NSU has a 3 head "monster" at QB with one of the guys in the mix a former 4 or 5th string QB for ODU. That explains how bad the QB situation is. They do have an FBS caliber RB in the fold and ODU could not stop Pitt last week from running. However, Pitt features an OL outweighing ODU by 25 pounds per man on average.
I do not see NSU putting up a ton of points in this one. They will likely try to slow it down and run the ball like most FCS schools do. They just don't have teh offensive weapons to keep ODU off balance though. On the other side, NSU has a decent defense. NSU hasn't played a team with the offensive firepower of ODU. NSU cannot compete with Liberty's defense and although ODU struggled to get in the end zone, they had 550 yards on offense. I dont see NSU keeping ODU under 40.