{"id":1939,"date":"2008-09-12T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/east-carolina-tulane-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:50:00","slug":"east-carolina-tulane-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/east-carolina-tulane-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"East Carolina-Tulane Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The East Carolina Pirates and the Tulane Green Wave will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Louisiana Superdome. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 13-point favorites versus the Green Wave, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 44. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place> defeated <st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 24-3 on Saturday, as 7.5-point underdogs. The 27 points went UNDER the posted total of 47.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jonathan Williams ran for 63 yards off 16 carries with two touchdowns <st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ross Thevenot booted a pair of field goals in Tulane&#8217;s 20-6 loss to <st1:State><st1:place>Alabama<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 2. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Crimson Tide didn&#8217;t come close to covering the 29.5-point spread in that contest, while the combined score fell UNDER the posted total (45). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place>: 2-0 SU, 2-0 ATS <br \/>Tulane: 0-1 SU, 1-0 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">East Carolina most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 4-6<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 6-4<br \/>When playing within the conference are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Tulane most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 3-7<br \/>When playing on turf are 4-6<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 2-8<br \/>When playing within the conference are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>East Carolina is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>East Carolina is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Tulane<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of East Carolina&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>East Carolina is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Tulane is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing East Carolina<br \/>Tulane is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games at home<br \/>Tulane is 4-10 SU in its last 14 games <br \/>Tulane is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing East Carolina<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place> at <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>North Carolina<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Saturday, September 20<br \/>Tulane home to Louisiana-Monroe, Saturday, September 20<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Carolina Pirates and the Tulane Green Wave will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Louisiana Superdome. Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 13-point favorites versus the Green Wave, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 44. East Carolina defeated West Virginia 24-3 on Saturday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/east-carolina-tulane-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Carolina-Tulane Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}