{"id":2024,"date":"2008-09-19T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/temple-penn-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:02:00","slug":"temple-penn-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/temple-penn-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple-Penn State Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Beaver Stadium will be treated to a game between the Temple<\/st1:PlaceType> Owls<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> and the Penn State Nittany Lions when they take their seats on Saturday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nittany Lions listed as 29\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total is sitting at 54. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam Dimichele threw for 51 yards for Temple<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, and it was not enough as they lost 30-28 to the Buffalo Bulls in Week 3. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The good news was that the Owls covered the 7-point spread in that game, and the combined score played OVER the posted total of 44. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daryll Clark threw two touchdown passes to lead Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> to a rather easy 55-13 win over the Syracuse Orange in Week 3. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Lions covered the large 27.5-point spread in that game, while the combined score played OVER the posted total of 50.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Temple<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Temple<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 1-2 SU, 3-0 <\/font>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName>
Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 3-0 SU, 2-0 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Temple most recently:
When playing in September are 0-10
When playing on grass are 3-7
After being outgained are 1-9
When playing outside the conference are 2-8<\/p>\n

Penn State most recently:
When playing in September are 7-3
When playing on grass are 8-2
After outgaining opponent are 8-2
When playing outside the conference are 10-0<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Temple is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Temple is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Temple’s last 10 games
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Temple’s last 15 games on the road
Penn State is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Temple
Penn State is 23-2 SU in its last 25 games at home
Penn State is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
Penn State is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Temple<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Temple<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Western Michigan<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 27
Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> home to Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 27<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The fans at Beaver Stadium will be treated to a game between the Temple Owls and the Penn State Nittany Lions when they take their seats on Saturday. Oddsmakers currently have the Nittany Lions listed as 29\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total is sitting at 54. Adam Dimichele threw for 51 yards … Continue reading Temple-Penn 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-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}