{"id":2708,"date":"2008-11-18T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/niukent\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:46:00","slug":"niukent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/niukent\/","title":{"rendered":"NIU\/Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Illinois Huskies and the Kent State Golden Flashes will both be   gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Dix Stadium. <?XML:NAMESPACE   PREFIX = O \/><o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a>   oddsmakers currently have the Huskies listed as 3-point favorites versus the   Golden Flashes, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 51. The top <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=3769\"><font   color=#0000ff>spread side and total for the game and tonight&#8217;s NBA and college   basketball pick<\/font><\/a>s are all up. <o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p><?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 \/><st1:PLACE>Northern Illinois<\/st1:PLACE> fell   33-30 to <st1:PLACE>Central Michigan<\/st1:PLACE> in OT in Week 12.   <st1:PLACE>Northern Illinois<\/st1:PLACE> was a 4-point favorite in that game,   while the 63 points sailed OVER the posted total of 50. <o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p>Chad Spann scored two rushing touchdowns in the loss. <o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p><st1:PLACE><st1:PLACENAME>Kent<\/st1:PLACENAME>   <st1:PLACENAME>State<\/st1:PLACENAME><\/st1:PLACE> held off   <st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Temple<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> and prevailed with a 41-38   victory in Week 12, as a slight 1-point underdog at home. The 79 points sailed   OVER the posted total of 47. <o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p>Julian Edelman ran for a pair of touchdowns, while finishing with 144 yards   rushing and 232 yards passing in the win. <o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p>Current streak<span class=GramE>:<\/span><br \/><st1:PLACE>Northern   Illinois<\/st1:PLACE> has lost 2 straight games.<o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p>Team records<span class=GramE>:<\/span><br \/><st1:PLACE>Northern   Illinois<\/st1:PLACE>: 5-5 SU, 5-4 <st1:PLACE><st1:PLACENAME>ATS<\/st1:PLACENAME>   <br \/><st1:PLACENAME>Kent<\/st1:PLACENAME>   <st1:PLACENAME>State<\/st1:PLACENAME><\/st1:PLACE>: 3-7 SU, <st1:DATE Month=\"2\"   Day=\"6\" Year=\"2001\">2-6-1<\/st1:DATE> ATS <o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p>Northern Illinois most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 5-5<br \/>When   playing on turf are 5-5<br \/>After being outgained are 3-7<br \/>When playing within   the conference are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Kent State most recently:<br \/>When playing in   November are 2-8<br \/>When playing on turf are 3-7<br \/>After outgaining opponent   are 4-6<br \/>When playing within the conference are 2-8<o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Northern Illinois is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games   on the road<br \/>Northern Illinois is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing   Kent State<br \/>Northern Illinois is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Kent   State<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Northern Illinois&#8217;s last 16 games on   the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Kent State&#8217;s last 7 games <br \/>Kent   State is 2-4-1 ATS in its last 7 games <br \/>Kent State is 2-7 SU in its last 9   games at home<br \/>Kent State is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Northern   Illinois<o:P><\/o:P><\/p>\n<p>Next up<span class=GramE>:<\/span><br \/><st1:PLACE>Northern Illinois<\/st1:PLACE>   home to Navy, Tuesday, November   25<br \/><st1:COUNTRY-REGION><st1:PLACE>Kent<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:COUNTRY-REGION> State   at <st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Buffalo<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY>, Friday, November   28<\/p>\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 Northern Illinois Huskies and the Kent State Golden Flashes will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Dix Stadium. BetUs Sportsbook oddsmakers currently have the Huskies listed as 3-point favorites versus the Golden Flashes, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 51. The top spread side and total for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/niukent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NIU\/Kent<\/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-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","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=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}