Player stats
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Biggest plays from Eastern Illinois’s games
Official highlights with our numbers: the plays that moved the chance to win most in Eastern Illinois’s games this season, whoever made them.
Q1, 4:29 · Minnesota tiedDarius Taylor runs 1 yard for a touchdownEastern Illinois at Minnesota, week 1Q1, 4:29 · Minnesota 7, Eastern Illinois 0Minnesota opened the scoringMinnesota opened the scoringD.Taylor rush left for 1 yard gain to the EIU00 touchdown, kick good▶Watch from this playBig Ten Football- Q1, 2:14 · Minnesota up 7Minnesota scores a touchdownEastern Illinois at Minnesota, week 1Q1, 2:14 · Minnesota 14, Eastern Illinois 087Punt return touchdown87Punt return touchdownPunt return touchdownC.Cox punt 55 yards to the MINN13 J.Tracy return 87 yards to the EIU00 touchdown penalty EIU Illegal Formation declined, kick good▶Watch from this playBig Ten Football
- Q2, 14:20 · Minnesota up 14Darius Taylor runs 27 yards for a touchdownEastern Illinois at Minnesota, week 1Q2, 14:20 · Minnesota 21, Eastern Illinois 021-0score after the play21-0score after the playD.Taylor rush middle for 27 yards gain to the EIU00 touchdown, 1ST DOWN, kick good▶Watch from this playBig Ten Football
- Q2, 3:15 · Minnesota up 14Darius Taylor runs 3 yards for a touchdownEastern Illinois at Minnesota, week 1Q2, 3:15 · Minnesota 28, Eastern Illinois 728-7score after the play28-7score after the playD.Taylor rush middle for 3 yards gain to the EIU00 touchdown. The previous play is under automatic review - "Runner was not down by contact". CALL UPHELD, kick good▶Watch from this playBig Ten Football
- Q2, 0:06 · Minnesota up 21Drake Lindsey finds Pierce Walsh for a 1-yard touchdownEastern Illinois at Minnesota, week 1Q2, 0:06 · Minnesota 35, Eastern Illinois 7Minnesota scored with 0:06 left in the halfMinnesota scored with 0:06 left in the halfD.Lindsey pass complete short right to P.Walsh caught at EIU00, for 1 yard to the EIU00 touchdown, kick good▶Watch from this playBig Ten Football
- Q4, 12:29 · Minnesota up 38Max Shikenjanski runs 2 yards for a touchdownEastern Illinois at Minnesota, week 1Q4, 12:29 · Minnesota 52, Eastern Illinois 752-7score after the play52-7score after the playNo Huddle M.Shikenjanski rush middle for 2 yards gain to the EIU00 touchdown, kick good▶Watch from this playBig Ten Football
How scary each game got
Eastern Illinois lost to Southeast Missouri State after being 83% to win; the closest win was at Murray State, down to 22%
Tap a game for its score and win chances.
Each bar runs from the lowest to the highest chance our model gave Eastern Illinois during that game; the thick mark is where it started. Numbers are the game week.
Home-field advantage · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Eastern Illinois is worth +15.1 points more at home than on the road.
Top tenth of FBS, 100th percentile of 133 programs
0% at home, 0% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (0-1 home, 0-9 away).
The stadium and how the home edge is measured
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge. The books use about 3. Per-team versions were tested and did not hold up (why). Against the closing line, Eastern Illinois has beaten the number by +2.6 more at home than away over 53 games. That is inside the ±6.5 that many games can resolve, so the results cannot tell this stadium from the flat number. That is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
O'Brien Stadium seats 10,000 and has averaged 51% full (5,054, 14 games reported). Visitors cover a median 220 miles to get here (2018-present).
Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 38 home games since 2018. No national trip rank shown: the ranked field is FBS venues only and leaves out the service academies and venues with too few measured games.
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Scheme claims
How much of Eastern Illinois’s number is the schedule?
Raw EPA/play through week 10 is −0.00; adjusted for opponent strength, it's 0.01. The widest gap came in week 1: 0.26 raw vs. 0.03 adjusted.