{"id":3123,"date":"2008-12-24T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/hawaii-bowl-notre-dame-vs-hawaii-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T16:25:00","slug":"hawaii-bowl-notre-dame-vs-hawaii-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/hawaii-bowl-notre-dame-vs-hawaii-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Bowl: Notre Dame vs. Hawaii 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\">Surprise, surprise &#8211; Hawaii is in the Hawaii Bowl! The Notre Dame Fighting Irish head to the islands on Christmas Eve to battle the Warriors at Aloha Stadium in the Hawaii Bowl. <br \/>The Warriors have played in four of the past six games and opened as small favorites to win it again. <?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 Fighting Irish listed as 2-point favorites versus the Warriors, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 49. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Notre Dame gained just 96 total yards in a 38-3 loss to USC in Week 14, as 32-point underdogs. 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\">Brandon Walker booted a 41-yard field goal for the only Irish points, while gaining just 96 total yards in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Greg Alexander had two TD passes in Hawaii&#8217;s 29-24 loss to Cincinnati in Week 15. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Bearcats weren&#8217;t able to cover the 7.5-point spread in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the day&#8217;s posted total (48.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/>Notre Dame: 6-6 SU, 6-6 ATS <br \/>Hawaii: 7-5 SU, 5-5-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Notre Dame most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 1-3<br \/>When playing on turf are 7-3<br \/>After being outgained are 3-7<br \/>When playing outside the conference are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 6-4<br \/>When playing on turf are 5-5<br \/>After being outgained are 7-3<br \/>When playing outside the conference are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Notre Dame is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Notre Dame is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games <br \/>Hawaii is 18-7 SU in its last 25 games <br \/>Hawaii is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Hawaii&#8217;s last 6 games <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>Surprise, surprise &#8211; Hawaii is in the Hawaii Bowl! The Notre Dame Fighting Irish head to the islands on Christmas Eve to battle the Warriors at Aloha Stadium in the Hawaii Bowl. The Warriors have played in four of the past six games and opened as small favorites to win it again. Oddsmakers currently have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/hawaii-bowl-notre-dame-vs-hawaii-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawaii Bowl: Notre Dame vs. Hawaii 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-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}