{"id":2267,"date":"2008-10-10T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/syracuse-west-virginia-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T17:06:00","slug":"syracuse-west-virginia-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/syracuse-west-virginia-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse-West Virginia 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 Syracuse Orangemen and the West Virginia Mountaineers will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar 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 Mountaineers listed as 24-point favorites versus the Orangemen, 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\">Cam Dantley was 9-for-17 for 137 yards passing and two TDs and Curtis Brinkley had 119 yards rushing on 16 carries as <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> lost 34-24 to <st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in Week 5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The <st1:City><st1:place>Orange<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> managed to cover the 14-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the day&#8217;s posted total of 48. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jarrett Brown&#8217;s touchdown run in the third quarter proved to be the difference as <st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> beat <st1:place>Rutgers<\/st1:place> 24-17 in Week 6. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Mountaineers failed to cover the 14-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day&#8217;s posted total of 49. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 1-4 SU, 1-3 ATS <br \/>West Virginia: 3-2 SU, 1-3 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 1-9<br \/>When playing on turf are 2-8<br \/>After being outgained are 2-8<br \/>When playing within the conference are 2-8<\/p>\n<p><st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 9-1<br \/>When playing on turf are 9-1<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 8-2<br \/>When playing within the conference are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Syracuse&#8217;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>Syracuse is 2-7 ATS in its last 9 games on the road<br \/>Syracuse is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against West Virginia<br \/>Syracuse is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games when playing West Virginia<br \/>West Virginia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Syracuse<br \/>West Virginia is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games at home<br \/>West Virginia is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Syracuse<br \/>West Virginia is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Syracuse<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:place>South Florida<\/st1:place>, Saturday, October 18<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>West Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Auburn<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, October 23<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<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp; 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Oddsmakers currently have the Mountaineers listed as 24-point favorites versus the Orangemen, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Cam Dantley was 9-for-17 for 137 yards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/syracuse-west-virginia-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Syracuse-West Virginia 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-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}