{"id":2654,"date":"2008-11-13T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/virginia-tech-miami-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:05:00","slug":"virginia-tech-miami-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/virginia-tech-miami-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech-Miami 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 Virginia Tech Hokies and the Miami Hurricanes will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Dolphin 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 Hurricanes listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Hokies, 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\">Virginia Tech improved to 6-3 with a 23-13 win over <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>Maryland<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 11. Virginia Tech covered the 3-point spread, while the 36 points went UNDER the posted total of 41. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Darren Evans ran for 253 yards off 32 carries with one touchdown in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jacory Harris threw a touchdown pass to Aldarius Johnson in overtime to give <st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> a 24-17 win over <st1:State><st1:place>Virginia<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 10. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Hurricanes covered the 1.5-point spread, while the final score played just under the day&#8217;s posted total of 42. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 4 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Virginia Tech: 6-3 SU, 3-5 ATS <br \/>Miami: 6-3 SU, 5-3 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Virginia Tech most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 10-0<br \/>When playing on grass are 7-3<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 8-2<br \/>When playing within the conference are 8-2<\/p>\n<p><st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 3-7<br \/>When playing on grass are 6-4<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 4-6<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 \/>Virginia Tech is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Miami<br \/>Virginia Tech is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Miami<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Virginia Tech&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>Virginia Tech is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Miami<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Miami&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Virginia Tech<br \/>Miami is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Miami is 13-6 SU in its last 19 games at home<br \/>Miami is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Virginia Tech<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Virginia Tech home to Duke, Saturday, November 22<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Georgia Tech, Thursday, November 20<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 Virginia Tech Hokies and the Miami Hurricanes will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Dolphin Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Hurricanes listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Hokies, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Virginia Tech improved to 6-3 with a 23-13 win over Maryland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/virginia-tech-miami-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virginia Tech-Miami 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-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","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=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}