{"id":2043,"date":"2008-09-19T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/houston-colorado-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:32:00","slug":"houston-colorado-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/houston-colorado-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-Colorado State 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 Houston Cougars and the Colorado State Rams will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Hughes Stadium. <?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 Cougars listed as 6\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rams, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 62. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Mark Hafner scored three touchdowns in Houston&#8217;s 31-28 loss to Air Force in Week 3. <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:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> was not able to cover the 4-point spread in that game, and the 59 points played OVER the posted total of 51. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 1-2 SU, 0-2 <\/font><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName> <br \/><st1:PlaceName>Colorado<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 1-1 SU, 0-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Houston most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 5-5<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing outside the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 4-6<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing outside the conference are 5-5<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Houston&#8217;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>Houston is 15-8 SU in its last 23 games <br \/>Houston is 3-6 ATS in its last 9 games on the road<br \/>Colorado State is 3-8 SU in its last 11 games at home<br \/>Colorado State is 4-17 SU in its last 21 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place>, Saturday, September 27<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State at <st1:State><st1:place>California<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, 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 Houston Cougars and the Colorado State Rams will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Hughes Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Cougars listed as 6\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rams, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 62. Mark Hafner scored three touchdowns in Houston&#8217;s 31-28 loss to Air Force &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/houston-colorado-state-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Houston-Colorado State 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-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}