{"id":2918,"date":"2008-12-05T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/southern-cal-ucla-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T03:54:00","slug":"southern-cal-ucla-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/southern-cal-ucla-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Cal-UCLA 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 Rose Bowl will be treated to a game between the Southern Cal Trojans and the UCLA Bruins when they take their seats on Saturday. <?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 Trojans listed as 33-point favorites versus the Bruins, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 46. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Mark Sanchez threw for 268 yards with two touchdowns as USC crushed Notre Dame 38-3 in Week 14. USC covered the 32-point spread, but the 41 points went UNDER the posted total of 50. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Sanchez completed 22-of-31 pass attempts, and Damian Williams had 88 yards receiving with a TD in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">UCLA was upended 34-9 by <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Arizona<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in Week 14, as 10-point underdogs. The 43 points fell UNDER the posted total of 44. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kai Forbath booted three field goals in the loss, including a 53-yarder. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:place>Southern Cal<\/st1:place> has won 8 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:place>Southern Cal<\/st1:place>: 10-1 SU, 7-4 ATS <br \/>UCLA: 4-7 SU, 6-5 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Southern Cal most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 4-3<br \/>When playing on grass are 10-0<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 9-1<br \/>When playing within the conference are 9-1<\/p>\n<p>UCLA most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 3-7<br \/>When playing on grass are 4-6<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 \/>Southern Cal is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Southern Cal is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing UCLA<br \/>Southern Cal is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Southern Cal is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games when playing UCLA<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of UCLA&#8217;s last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of UCLA&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>UCLA is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games at home<br \/>UCLA is 18-7 SU in its last 25 games at home<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 fans at Rose Bowl will be treated to a game between the Southern Cal Trojans and the UCLA Bruins when they take their seats on Saturday. Oddsmakers currently have the Trojans listed as 33-point favorites versus the Bruins, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 46. Mark Sanchez threw for 268 yards with two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/southern-cal-ucla-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Southern Cal-UCLA 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-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","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=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}