{"id":1934,"date":"2008-09-12T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/ball-state-akron-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:38:00","slug":"ball-state-akron-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/ball-state-akron-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball State-Akron Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Ball State Cardinals and the Akron Zips will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Rubber Bowl. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 7-point favorites versus the Zips, while the game’s total is sitting at 60. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nate Davis threw for four touchdowns in Week 2, as Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> defeated the Navy 35-23. Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> covered the 7-point spread, while the 58 points fell UNDER the posted total of 62.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Davis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> passed for 326 yards for Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, and Dante Love caught two touchdown passes with another off the ground in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris Jacquemain threw three touchdown passes as Akron<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> closed out Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 42-28 in Week 2, as 5-point road underdogs. The combined 70 points sailed OVER the posted total of 43.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jacquemain completed 21-of-27 for 274 yards, while Alex Allen had 106 yards receiving with two touchdowns in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 2-0 SU, 1-0 ATS
Akron: 1-1 SU, 2-0 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ball State most recently:
When playing in September are 4-6
When playing on turf are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing within the conference are 8-2<\/p>\n

Akron most recently:
When playing in September are 5-5
When playing on turf are 4-6
After outgaining opponent are 2-8
When playing within the conference are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Ball State’s last 5 games on the road
Ball State is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Ball State is 12-4 ATS in its last 16 games on the road
Ball State is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Akron is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games at home
Akron is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> at Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 20
Akron<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Army, Saturday, September 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Ball State Cardinals and the Akron Zips will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Rubber Bowl. Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 7-point favorites versus the Zips, while the game’s total is sitting at 60. Nate Davis threw for four touchdowns in Week 2, as Ball State … Continue reading Ball State-Akron 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-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","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=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}