Our side
MoneylineUNI to win
ours 70%
Projected score
25–33
INST – UNI
2026-10-31 · 2:00 PM
UNI-Dome · Cedar Falls, IA
Conference game
Indoors
Early season
The books
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Series
Northern Iowa lead
18–2
· 20 meetings since 1983
2025 unit ranks —
last completed season, from games actually played
Run game
even
22 ranks apart
Indiana State Sycamores #221 rush offense
Northern Iowa Panthers #199 run defense
Pass game
even
35 ranks apart
Indiana State Sycamores #166 pass offense
Northern Iowa Panthers #201 pass defense
Run game
even
35 ranks apart
Northern Iowa Panthers #223 rush offense
Indiana State Sycamores #258 run defense
Pass game
edge Northern Iowa Panthers
75 ranks
Northern Iowa Panthers #174 pass offense
Indiana State Sycamores #249 pass defense
Indiana State Sycamores
Balanced · 54% run
Ball-control
Northern Iowa Panthers
Balanced · 57% run
Ball-control
Ranked by team-unit strength
(rush & pass offense vs. run & pass defense) across all 265
D1 teams, not by individual players. Identity, tempo and unit strength are measured from the
2025 season.
The evidence 2025 production and power ratings · supporting the number above
Who carried each team in 2025
Indiana State Sycamores
DL
Kaleb Harris
12 tkl · 3.5 TFL
#65 DL
DB
Nic Yatsko
25 tkl · 2 PD
#83 DB
WR
BJ Wuest
11 rec · 226 yds · 1 TD
#156 WR
WR
Keshon Singleton
12 rec · 132 yds · 1 TD
#167 WR
Northern Iowa Panthers
TE
Brady McCullough
7 rec · 98 yds · 3 TD
#11 TE
DB
Calvin Jaworski
7 tkl · 1 INT
#132 DB
LB
John Powers
20 tkl
#123 LB
LB
Kolben Miller
12 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 3.0 TFL
#151 LB
Top-rated players from last season, ranked within their
position across D1. A grade measures what a player produced, and no
2026 game has been played yet — so this is who produced for
these programs in 2025, not a claim about who is on the field this year.
Power breakdown
Def is higher = better. The projection assumes a 2.4-pt home edge (0 at neutral sites).
Where the number comes from
Indiana State offense vs Northern Iowa defense-0.9 pts
Northern Iowa offense vs Indiana State defense+4.4 pts
An efficiency adjustment from season-to-date EPA and success rate applies once teams have
played enough games; before then it is 0 and the number is the power rating alone.