{"id":2056,"date":"2008-09-19T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/rice-texas-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T02:45:00","slug":"rice-texas-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/rice-texas-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice-Texas Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Rice Owls and the Texas Longhorns will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Memorial Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Longhorns listed as 29\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total is sitting at 70. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chase Clement had one TD strike and one rushing score in Rice’s 38-21 loss to Vanderbilt in Week 3. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Commodores managed to cover the 8.5-point spread in that contest, while the combined score went just OVER the day’s posted total (58.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> put up four touchdowns in the first half in Week 2 en route to a 42-13 win over UTEP. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Longhorns managed to cover the big 26.5-point spread in that contest, while the combined score fell UNDER the night’s posted total (58.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Rice: 2-1 SU, 2-1 ATS
Texas: 2-0 SU, 2-0 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rice most recently:
When playing in September are 2-8
When playing on grass are 1-9
After outgaining opponent are 4-6
When playing outside the conference are 1-9<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Rice is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Texas
Rice is 5-11 SU in its last 16 games
Rice is 7-18 SU in its last 25 games on the road
Rice is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Texas
Texas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Rice
Texas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Rice
Texas is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
Texas is 21-4 SU in its last 25 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Rice home to North Texas<\/st1:place>, Saturday, September 27
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Arkansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 27<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Rice Owls and the Texas Longhorns will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Memorial Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Longhorns listed as 29\u00bd-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total is sitting at 70. Chase Clement had one TD strike and one rushing score in … Continue reading Rice-Texas 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-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}