{"id":2032,"date":"2008-09-19T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/mississippi-state-georgia-tech-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:43:00","slug":"mississippi-state-georgia-tech-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/mississippi-state-georgia-tech-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State-Georgia Tech Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Bobby Dodd Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Yellow Jackets listed as 7\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulldogs, while the game’s total is sitting at 37. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bulldogs were held to just a safety in their 3-2 loss to Auburn<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in Week 3. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Tigers didn’t manage to cover the 10-point spread in that contest, while the combined score fell well UNDER the day’s posted total (38.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Josh Nesbitt threw for one TD and ran for another for Georgia Tech, but in the end it was not enough as they lost 20-17 to Virginia Tech in Week 3. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Jackets did cover the 7-point spread in that loss, and the final score played UNDER the posted total of 41. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Mississippi<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 1-2 SU, 1-1 ATS
Georgia Tech: 2-1 SU, 2-0 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mississippi State most recently:
When playing in September are 5-5
When playing on grass are 7-3
After being outgained are 5-5
When playing outside the conference are 7-3<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Mississippi<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> is 8-3-1<\/st1:date> ATS in its last 12 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Mississippi<\/st1:PlaceName> State’s last 6 games on the road
Mississippi<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Georgia Tech is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Mississippi<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State at LSU, Saturday, September 27
Georgia Tech home to Duke, Saturday, October 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Yellow Jackets listed as 7\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulldogs, while the game’s total is sitting at 37. The Bulldogs were held to just … Continue reading Mississippi State-Georgia Tech 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-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","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=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}