{"id":2512,"date":"2008-10-31T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/texas-texas-tech-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T02:42:00","slug":"texas-texas-tech-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/texas-texas-tech-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas-Texas Tech Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Texas Longhorns and the Texas Tech Red Raiders will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Jones AT&T Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Longhorns listed as 4-point favorites versus the Red Raiders, while the game’s total is sitting at 72. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> needed a big defensive stand in the fourth quarter to overcome a pair of late mistakes by Colt McCoy to hang on for a tough 28-24 win over Oklahoma<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in Week 9. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Longhorns failed to cover the 11.5-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day’s posted total of 66.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Graham Harrell passed for 386 yards and five touchdowns as Texas Tech breezed past Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 63-21 in Week 9. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Raiders easily covered the 2-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the day’s posted total of 68.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 8 straight games.
Texas Tech has won 8 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 8-0 SU, 7-1 ATS
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> Tech: 8-0 SU, 3-2-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing in November are 7-3
When playing on turf are 9-1
After outgaining opponent are 9-1
When playing within the conference are 9-1<\/p>\n

Texas Tech most recently:
When playing in November are 7-3
When playing on turf are 8-2
After outgaining opponent are 8-2
When playing within the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Texas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Texas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Texas Tech
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Texas’s last 5 games when playing Texas Tech
Texas is 20-2 SU in its last 22 games on the road
Texas Tech is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Texas Tech is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Texas Tech’s last 5 games when playing Texas
Texas Tech is 3-6 ATS in its last 9 games when playing Texas<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Baylor, Saturday, November 8
Texas Tech home to Oklahoma<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Saturday, November 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Texas Longhorns and the Texas Tech Red Raiders will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Jones AT&T Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Longhorns listed as 4-point favorites versus the Red Raiders, while the game’s total is sitting at 72. Texas needed a big defensive stand in … Continue reading Texas-Texas Tech 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-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","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=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}