{"id":2467,"date":"2008-10-27T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/houston-marshall-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T01:09:00","slug":"houston-marshall-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/houston-marshall-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-Marshall Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Cougars and the Marshall Thundering Herd will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cougars listed as 8-point favorites versus the Thundering Herd, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to come back and defeat SMU 44-38 in Week 8. Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> failed to cover the 13.5-point spread, while the 82 points sailed OVER the posted total of 70. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Bryce Beall carried the ball 22 times for 105 yards and three touchdowns to lead the way. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Marshall<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> was upset 23-21 in Week 8 by UAB, as 3-point favorites on the road. The combined 44 points fell UNDER the posted total of 55.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark Cann completed 17-of-28 for 236 yards with two touchdowns for Marshall<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.
Marshall<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 4-3 SU, 2-4 ATS
Marshall: 3-4 SU, 1-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing in October are 7-3
When playing on turf are 4-6
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing within the conference are 8-2<\/p>\n

Marshall most recently:
When playing in October are 3-7
When playing on turf are 6-4
After being outgained are 5-5
When playing within the conference are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Houston’s last 9 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston’s last 6 games
Houston is 10-5 SU in its last 15 games
Houston is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games
Marshall is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Marshall’s last 5 games
Marshall is 6-14 SU in its last 20 games
Marshall is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tulane, Saturday, November 8
Marshall<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at East Carolina<\/st1:place>, Saturday, November 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Cougars and the Marshall Thundering Herd will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Cougars listed as 8-point favorites versus the Thundering Herd, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Houston scored three touchdowns in the … Continue reading Houston-Marshall 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-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","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=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}