{"id":2432,"date":"2008-10-24T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/ucla-california-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T02:15:00","slug":"ucla-california-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/ucla-california-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA-California 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 UCLA Bruins and the California Golden Bears will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Memorial 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 Golden Bears listed as 18-point favorites versus the Bruins, 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\">Kevin Craft threw two touchdown passes to lead UCLA to a 23-20 victory over Stanford in Week 8, as 2.5-point underdogs. The 43 points went UNDER the day&#8217;s posted total of 46. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Craft completed 23-of-41 for 284 yards, and Terrence Austin caught five passes for 50 yards with a TD in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>California<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> lost 42-27 to <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 8 as a 2-point favorite on the road. The game&#8217;s 69 points sailed OVER the posted total of 51.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Nate Longshore completed 18-of-37 pass attempts for 218 yards with two touchdowns for <st1:State><st1:place>California<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>UCLA: 3-4 SU, <st1:date Month=\"4\" Day=\"2\" Year=\"2001\">4-2-1<\/st1:date> ATS <br \/>California: 4-2 SU, 4-2 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">UCLA most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 3-7<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 6-4<br \/>When playing within the conference are 4-6<\/p>\n<p><st1:State><st1:place>California<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:<br \/>When playing in October are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 7-3<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>UCLA is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing California<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of UCLA&#8217;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>UCLA is 8-4 ATS in its last 12 games on the road<br \/>UCLA is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games <br \/>California is 17-2 SU in its last 19 games at home<br \/>California is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games at home<br \/>California is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against UCLA<br \/>California is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>UCLA home to <st1:State><st1:place>Oregon<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> State, Saturday, November 8<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>California<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Oregon<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, November 1<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 UCLA Bruins and the California Golden Bears will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Memorial Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Golden Bears listed as 18-point favorites versus the Bruins, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 51. Kevin Craft threw two touchdown passes to lead UCLA to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/ucla-california-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UCLA-California 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-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}