{"id":2209,"date":"2008-10-03T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/akron-kent-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:33:00","slug":"akron-kent-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/akron-kent-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Akron-Kent 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 Akron Zips and the Kent State Golden Flashes will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Dix 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 Zips listed as 4-point favorites versus the Golden Flashes, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 51. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Akron was led by Chris Jacquemain, who threw for 255 yards, one touchdown and one interception as they lost 17-15 to Cincinnati in Week 5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Zips did manage to cover the 11-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day&#8217;s posted total of 58.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Julian Edelman passed for 177 yards and a touchdown and ran for 70 yards and two scores for Kent State in a 41-20 loss to the Ball State in Week 5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kent State failed to cover the 21-point spread while the final score played to a push. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/>Kent State has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Akron: 2-3 SU, 4-1 ATS <br \/>Kent State: 1-4 SU, 0-4 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Akron most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 3-7<br \/>After being outgained are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Kent State most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 2-8<br \/>When playing on turf are 2-8<br \/>After being outgained are 2-8<br \/>When playing within the conference are 1-9<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Akron is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games when playing Kent State<br \/>Akron is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Akron is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Kent State<br \/>Akron is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Kent State<br \/>Kent State is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Akron<br \/>Kent State is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Akron<br \/>Kent State is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Akron<br \/>Kent State is 2-9 SU in its last 11 games when playing Akron<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Akron home to Bowling Green, Saturday, October 11<br \/>Kent State home to Ohio, Saturday, October 11<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 Akron Zips and the Kent State Golden Flashes will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Dix Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Zips listed as 4-point favorites versus the Golden Flashes, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 51. Akron was led by Chris Jacquemain, who threw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/akron-kent-state-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Akron-Kent 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-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}