{"id":1957,"date":"2008-09-12T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/rice-vanderbilt-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T02:50:00","slug":"rice-vanderbilt-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/rice-vanderbilt-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice-Vanderbilt Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Rice Owls and the Vanderbilt Commodores will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Vanderbilt Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Commodores listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total is sitting at 58. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rice exploded for 29 points in the fourth quarter in Week 2 in a 42-35 victory over favored Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers had been pegged as 3-point favorites in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the night’s posted total (65.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Vanderbilt shocked South Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> with a 24-17 win in Week 2, as 9.5-point underdogs. The combined 41 points went as a PUSH against the posted total of 41. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris Nickson completed 8-of-13 pass attempts for 90 yards with a touchdown, and ran for another in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Rice has won 2 straight games.
Vanderbilt has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Rice: 2-0 SU, 2-0 ATS
Vanderbilt: 2-0 SU, 2-0 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rice most recently:
When playing in September are 2-8
When playing on grass are 1-9
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing outside the conference are 1-9<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt most recently:
When playing in September are 6-4
When playing on grass are 4-6
After being outgained are 5-5
When playing outside the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Rice is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
Rice is 5-10 SU in its last 15 games
Rice is 7-18 SU in its last 25 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Vanderbilt’s last 8 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Vanderbilt’s last 13 games
Vanderbilt is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Rice at Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 20
Vanderbilt at Mississippi<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Rice Owls and the Vanderbilt Commodores will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Vanderbilt Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Commodores listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total is sitting at 58. Rice exploded for 29 points in the fourth quarter in Week … Continue reading Rice-Vanderbilt 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-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","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=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}