{"id":2248,"date":"2008-10-07T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/troy-florida-atlantic-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T11:19:00","slug":"troy-florida-atlantic-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/troy-florida-atlantic-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy-Florida Atlantic 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 Troy Trojans and the Florida Atlantic Owls will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Lockhart 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 Trojans listed as 4-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Troy was defeated 55-24 by Oklahoma State in Week 5, as a 17.5-point road underdog. The 79 points sailed OVER the posted total of 61. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jamie Hampton completed 24-of-46 pass attempts for 256 yards with two touchdowns in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Middle Tennessee put up 14 points in the fourth quarter in Week 6 to rally past Florida Atlantic for a 14-13 victory. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Blue Raiders failed to cover the 3-point spread in that contest, while the combined score fell well UNDER the night&#8217;s posted total (52). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/>Troy has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Florida Atlantic has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Troy: 2-2 SU, 2-1 ATS <br \/>Florida Atlantic: 1-4 SU, 3-2 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Troy most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 8-2<br \/>When playing on grass are 2-8<br \/>After being outgained are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 9-1<\/p>\n<p>Florida Atlantic most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 4-6<br \/>When playing on grass are 4-6<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 4-6<br \/>When playing within the conference are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Troy is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Florida Atlantic<br \/>Troy is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Florida Atlantic&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Florida Atlantic&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Florida Atlantic is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games <br \/>Florida Atlantic is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Troy home to Florida International, Saturday, October 18<br \/>Florida Atlantic at Western Kentucky, Saturday, October 18<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><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 Troy Trojans and the Florida Atlantic Owls will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Lockhart Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Trojans listed as 4-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Troy was defeated 55-24 by Oklahoma State in Week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/troy-florida-atlantic-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troy-Florida Atlantic 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-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","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=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}