{"id":1931,"date":"2008-09-12T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/florida-atlantic-michigan-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:32:00","slug":"florida-atlantic-michigan-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/florida-atlantic-michigan-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic-Michigan State Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Florida Atlantic Owls and the Michigan State Spartans will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Spartan Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as 17\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida Atlantic dominated from the start as they got past UAB 49-34 in Week 2. Florida Atlantic covered the 14-point spread, while the combined 83 points sailed OVER the posted total of 56. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rusty Smith threw for 302 yards with three touchdowns to lead the way. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Javon Ringer ran for five touchdowns as Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> ran past Eastern Michigan<\/st1:place> 42-10 in Week 2. Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> covered the 21-point spread, while the 52 points fell UNDER the posted total of 56. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ringer carried the ball 34 times for 133 yards, and Ashton Leggett ran for the other score in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> Atlantic<\/st1:place>: 1-1 SU, 1-1 <\/font>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName>
Michigan<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 1-1 SU, 1-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida Atlantic most recently:
When playing in September are 5-5
When playing on grass are 5-5
After outgaining opponent are 4-6
When playing outside the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n

Michigan State most recently:
When playing in September are 7-3
When playing on grass are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 4-6
When playing outside the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Florida Atlantic’s last 6 games on the road
Florida Atlantic is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Florida Atlantic is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Florida Atlantic is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Michigan State is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> Atlantic<\/st1:place> at Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 20
Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State home to Notre Dame, Saturday, September 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Florida Atlantic Owls and the Michigan State Spartans will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Spartan Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Spartans listed as 17\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Florida Atlantic dominated from the start as they … Continue reading Florida Atlantic-Michigan State Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}