{"id":2030,"date":"2008-09-19T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/florida-atlantic-minnesota-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:33:00","slug":"florida-atlantic-minnesota-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/florida-atlantic-minnesota-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic-Minnesota 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 Florida Atlantic Owls and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at The Metrodome. <?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 Golden Gophers listed as 7-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rusty Smith threw for 143 yards and Charles Pierre rushed the ball for 57 yards as Florida Atlantic lost 17-0 to the Michigan State Spartans in Week 3. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Owls covered the 18-point spread, and the points played well UNDER the posted total of 61. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> <st1:place>Atlantic<\/st1:place>: 1-2 SU, 2-1 ATS <br \/>Minnesota: 3-0 SU, 1-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Florida Atlantic most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 5-5<br \/>After being outgained are 7-3<br \/>When playing outside the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 3-7<br \/>After being outgained are 1-9<br \/>When playing outside the conference are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Florida Atlantic is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 9 of Florida Atlantic&#8217;s last 11 games <br \/>Florida Atlantic is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Florida Atlantic&#8217;s last 7 games on the road<br \/>Minnesota is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games at home<br \/>Minnesota is 3-10 SU in its last 13 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> <st1:place>Atlantic<\/st1:place> at Middle Tennessee, Tuesday, September 30<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Saturday, September 27<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/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 Florida Atlantic Owls and the Minnesota Golden Gophers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at The Metrodome. Oddsmakers currently have the Golden Gophers listed as 7-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Rusty Smith threw for 143 yards and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/florida-atlantic-minnesota-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida Atlantic-Minnesota 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-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}