{"id":2653,"date":"2008-11-13T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/buffalo-akron-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:03:00","slug":"buffalo-akron-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/buffalo-akron-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo-Akron 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 Buffalo Bulls and the Akron Zips will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rubber Bowl. <?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 Zips listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Bulls finally beat the RedHawks with a 37-17 win at home last Tuesday night. It was the first time they&#8217;ve defeated their MAC rival in 11 meetings. <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:City><st1:place>Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered the 8-point spread set by oddsmakers and the final score played over the 50.5-point total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Akron<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> took it to <st1:City><st1:place>Toledo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> early and went on for a 47-30 win in Week 11. <st1:City><st1:place>Akron<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered the 6.5-point spread at home, and the 77 points sailed OVER the posted total of 55. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Akron<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 5-4 SU, 6-3 ATS <br \/>Akron: 5-4 SU, <st1:date Month=\"6\" Day=\"2\" Year=\"2001\">6-2-1<\/st1:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Buffalo most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 6-4<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 1-9<br \/>When playing within the conference are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Akron most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 5-5<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 2-8<br \/>When playing within the conference are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Buffalo is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Buffalo&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Buffalo is 7-3 ATS in its last 10 games <br \/>Buffalo is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Akron<br \/>Akron is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing Buffalo<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Akron&#8217;s last 6 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Akron&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Akron is 4-2 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 \/>Buffalo at <st1:City><st1:place>Bowling Green<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, November 21<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Akron<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:State><st1:place>Ohio<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, November 22<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 Buffalo Bulls and the Akron Zips will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Rubber Bowl. Oddsmakers currently have the Zips listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Bulls finally beat the RedHawks with a 37-17 win &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/buffalo-akron-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buffalo-Akron 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-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}