{"id":2533,"date":"2008-11-02T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/east-carolina-central-florida-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:14:00","slug":"east-carolina-central-florida-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/east-carolina-central-florida-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"East Carolina-Central Florida 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 fans at Bright House Networks Stadium will be treated to a game between the East Carolina Pirates and the Central Florida Knights when they take their seats on Sunday. <?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 Pirates listed as 5-point favorites versus the Knights, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 47. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rob Kass threw for two touchdowns as <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place> beat <st1:City><st1:place>Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 30-10 in Week 8. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Pirates covered the 8.5-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day&#8217;s posted total of 53.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Knights lost to <st1:City><st1:place>Tulsa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 49-19 as a 23.5-point underdog last time out. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (68). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rob Calabrese passed for 124 yards with two touchdowns for the Knights and Brian Watters caught seven passes for 121 yards with a touchdown. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:place>Central Florida<\/st1:place> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place>: 4-3 SU, 3-4 ATS <br \/>Central Florida: 2-5 SU, <st1:date Month=\"2\" Day=\"3\" Year=\"2001\">2-3-1<\/st1:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">East Carolina most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 7-3<br \/>When playing on grass are 6-4<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Central Florida most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 8-2<br \/>When playing on grass are 6-4<br \/>After being outgained are 4-6<br \/>When playing within the conference are 8-2<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 OVER in 7 of East Carolina&#8217;s last 8 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of East Carolina&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>East Carolina is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games <br \/>East Carolina is 15-8 ATS in its last 23 games on the road<br \/>Central Florida is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games at home<br \/>Central Florida is 1-3-1 ATS in its last 5 games <br \/>Central Florida is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:place>East Carolina<\/st1:place> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Marshall<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, November 8<br \/><st1:place>Central Florida<\/st1:place> home to Southern Miss, Saturday, November 8<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><b><span style=\"TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol\"><o:p><font size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/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 fans at Bright House Networks Stadium will be treated to a game between the East Carolina Pirates and the Central Florida Knights when they take their seats on Sunday. Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 5-point favorites versus the Knights, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 47. Rob Kass threw for two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/east-carolina-central-florida-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Carolina-Central Florida 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-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","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=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}