{"id":2370,"date":"2008-10-17T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/memphis-east-carolina-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T02:46:00","slug":"memphis-east-carolina-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/memphis-east-carolina-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis-East Carolina Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Memphis Tigers and the East Carolina Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 8-point favorites versus the Tigers, while the game’s total is sitting at 56. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> lost 35-28 to Louisville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> last time out, as 6.5-point road underdogs. The 63 points made it OVER the posted total of 56. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Arkelon Hall threw for 350 yards with two touchdowns, while also scoring two other TD’s in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jonathan Williams rushed for 95 yards on 19 attempts with a score for East Carolina<\/st1:place> in its 35-20 loss to Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 7. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> covered as 4-point home underdogs as the teams played over the 41.5-point total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
East Carolina<\/st1:place> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 3-4 SU, 2-3-1<\/st1:date> ATS
East Carolina: 3-3 SU, 2-4 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Memphis most recently:
When playing in October are 4-6
When playing on grass are 4-6
After outgaining opponent are 7-3
When playing within the conference are 7-3<\/p>\n

East Carolina most recently:
When playing in October are 6-4
When playing on grass are 6-4
After being outgained are 6-4
When playing within the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Memphis’s last 13 games on the road
Memphis is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Memphis is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against East Carolina
Memphis is 0-5 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against East Carolina
East Carolina is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Memphis
East Carolina is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Memphis
The total has gone OVER in 6 of East Carolina’s last 7 games
East Carolina is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Southern Miss, Saturday, October 25
East Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Central Florida<\/st1:place>, Sunday, November 2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Memphis Tigers and the East Carolina Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 8-point favorites versus the Tigers, while the game’s total is sitting at 56. Memphis lost 35-28 to Louisville last time out, as 6.5-point … Continue reading Memphis-East Carolina 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-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","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=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}