{"id":2257,"date":"2008-10-09T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/houston-uab-betting-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T19:39:00","slug":"houston-uab-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/houston-uab-betting-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-UAB Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UAB<\/span> and Houston may be the least high profile of the three betting   events tonight, but <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=105\">sports   betting<\/a> experts say it&#8217;s very strong from an investment standpoint. You have   the official betting previews of <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=3341\"><font   color=#0000ff>Wake Forest-Clemson<\/font><\/a>, and the <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=3337\"><font   color=#0000ff>Dodgers-Phillies<\/font><\/a>, now he is the same for Alabama   Birmingham and Houston. The college football <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=69\">odds<\/a> have   <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1   \/><st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Houston<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> as an 18-18.5 point chalk   with a total ranging from 66 in Vegas to 67 on the offshore line. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Grandmaster <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><font color=#0000ff>sports   handicapper<\/font><\/a> Joe Duffy of GodsTips, anchor of <b   style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"COLOR: blue\"><a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><font   color=#0000ff>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> admits that &#8220;<span   class=SpellE>UAB<\/span> is on our radar screen as a possible dichotomous   straight up and ATS team.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The official explanation is, &#8220;We discount 98 percent of   trends, but this has proven to be the exception to the rule. Explained in our   articles around the Net, basically if a team has a great SU record but horrid   ATS record or visa versa, you ride for that to continue as it is the sign of   which teams are most under or overvalued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE>UAB<\/span> is 1-5 straight up, 0-5   outright in their lined games, yet is on a 2-0-1 spread run.   <st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Houston<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> is 2-3 straight up, 1-3 to   the Vegas odds, going over 3-of-4. <span   style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><span   style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE>UAB<\/span> has a quality running game   averaging 5.4 yards per rush to teams normally allowing 4.4. Defensively they   are horrid, allowing 5.1 yards per rush to teams normally getting 4.0, 9.0 yards   per pass to teams normally getting 7.6 and 6.9 yards per play to 5.8. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Here are some betting trends, all records against the   spread: the Blazers are 7-3 off a bye week. They are 2-9 on the road versus an   opponent losing home record.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The   Cougars are 7-19 at home to teams with a losing road record. They are in fact   1-8 their last nine games overall. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE>UAB<\/span> has gone over 9-2 versus   teams with a losing record.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;   <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>There is little question who will cover the pointspread.   Mark the Shark, the top handicapper west of the   <st1:STATE><st1:PLACE><st1:STATE><st1:PLACE>Mississippi<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE><\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE>   hits 60-65 % of his Game\/Total of the Month or higher plays.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Wednesday, Oct. 1, he nails   <st1:PLACE><st1:PLACENAME><st1:PLACE><st1:PLACENAME>Boise<\/st1:PLACENAME><\/st1:PLACENAME>   <st1:PLACETYPE><st1:PLACETYPE>State<\/st1:PLACETYPE><\/st1:PLACETYPE><\/st1:PLACE>   as his 12 Game of the Week winner the last 24, fresh off of   <st1:STATE><st1:PLACE><st1:STATE><st1:PLACE>New   Mexico<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE><\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE> on Sept. 27. Thursday,   Oct. 2 his <span class=SpellE><span class=spelle>Nonconferene<\/span><\/span> Game   of the Year was easy on   <st1:PLACE><st1:PLACENAME><st1:PLACE><st1:PLACENAME>Oregon<\/st1:PLACENAME><\/st1:PLACENAME>   <st1:PLACETYPE><st1:PLACETYPE>State<\/st1:PLACETYPE><\/st1:PLACETYPE><\/st1:PLACE>.   You know it&#8217;s legit because you got it right here. Saturday, Oct. 4 he hits   <span class=SpellE><span class=spelle>WAC<\/span><\/span> Game of the Month on   <st1:STATE><st1:PLACE><st1:STATE><st1:PLACE>Nevada<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE><\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE>   wins. &nbsp;You know it&#8217;s legit because you got EVERY ONE OF THEM. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Now is C-USA Interdivisional Game of the Year <span   class=SpellE><span class=spelle><span   style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">UAB<\/span><\/span><\/span>\/Houston. <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\"><span   style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"><font color=#0000ff>Click now to   purchase<\/font><\/span><\/a> all the top sports betting picks from the top sports   services for just $16. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>You can get   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterlockline.com\/\"><span   style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"><font color=#0000ff>more   information<\/font><\/span><\/a> and <span class=GramE>a free sports<\/span>   pick.<\/p>\n<p><\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:PLACE><\/p>\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>UAB and Houston may be the least high profile of the three betting events tonight, but sports betting experts say it&#8217;s very strong from an investment standpoint. You have the official betting previews of Wake Forest-Clemson, and the Dodgers-Phillies, now he is the same for Alabama Birmingham and Houston. The college football odds have Houston &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/houston-uab-betting-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Houston-UAB Betting 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-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}