{"id":2165,"date":"2008-09-30T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/florida-atlantic-middle-tennessee-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:56:00","slug":"florida-atlantic-middle-tennessee-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/florida-atlantic-middle-tennessee-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic-Middle Tennessee Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Florida Atlantic Owls and the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Horace Jones Field\/Floyd Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Raiders listed as 3-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Not much went right for Florida Atlantic in Week 4. QB Rusty Smith was 17-for-34 in air for 154 yards and no touchdowns in a 37-3 loss to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Owls failed to pull off the upset and could not cover the 6.5-point spread, while the combined score of 40 played well UNDER the posted total of 61.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Middle Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was defeated 31-14 by Arkansas<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in Week 4, as 6.5-point road underdogs. The 45 points fell UNDER the posted total of 50.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Middle Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> had just 44 yards rushing in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> Atlantic<\/st1:place> has lost 2 straight games.
Middle Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> Atlantic<\/st1:place>: 1-3 SU, 2-2 ATS
Middle Tennessee: 1-3 SU, 2-2 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida Atlantic most recently:
When playing in September are 5-5
When playing on turf are 5-5
After being outgained are 6-4
When playing within the conference are 8-2<\/p>\n

Middle Tennessee most recently:
When playing in September are 3-7
When playing on turf are 5-5
After being outgained are 4-6
When playing within the conference are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Florida Atlantic’s last 12 games
Florida Atlantic is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games
Florida Atlantic is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Florida Atlantic is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Middle Tennessee’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Middle Tennessee’s last 5 games at home
Middle Tennessee is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games at home
Middle Tennessee is 2-4-1 ATS in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> Atlantic<\/st1:place> home to Troy<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, October 7
Middle Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Florida International, Saturday, October 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Florida Atlantic Owls and the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Horace Jones Field\/Floyd Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Blue Raiders listed as 3-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Not much went right … Continue reading Florida Atlantic-Middle Tennessee 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-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}