{"id":2038,"date":"2008-09-19T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/arizona-ucla-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:06:00","slug":"arizona-ucla-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/arizona-ucla-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona-UCLA 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 Arizona Wildcats and the UCLA Bruins will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Rose Bowl. <?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 Wildcats listed as 3-point favorites versus the Bruins, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 52. <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:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was defeated 36-28 by <st1:State><st1:place>New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 3, as 10.5-point road underdogs. The combined 64 points sailed OVER the posted over\/under (50). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Willie Tuitama completed 27-of-50 for 321 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kevin Craft completed only 23-of-39 passes for 224 yards as UCLA got destroyed 59-0 by BYU in Week 3. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Bruins came nowhere near covering the 8.5-point spread in that loss, while the combined points played OVER the posted total of 50.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 2-1 SU, 2-1 ATS <br \/>UCLA: 1-1 SU, 1-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 4-6<br \/>When playing on grass are 5-5<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 3-7<br \/>When playing within the conference are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>UCLA most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 7-3<br \/>When playing on grass are 5-5<br \/>After being outgained are 2-8<br \/>When playing within 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 \/>Arizona is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Arizona is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing UCLA<br \/>Arizona is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>UCLA is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games at home<br \/>UCLA is 18-4 SU in its last 22 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of UCLA&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>UCLA is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Arizona<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, October 4<br \/>UCLA home to <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Fresno<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Saturday, September 27<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 Arizona Wildcats and the UCLA Bruins will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Rose Bowl. Oddsmakers currently have the Wildcats listed as 3-point favorites versus the Bruins, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 52. Arizona was defeated 36-28 by New Mexico in Week 3, as 10.5-point road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/arizona-ucla-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arizona-UCLA 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-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}