{"id":3124,"date":"2008-12-26T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/motor-city-bowl-florida-atlantic-vs-central-michigan-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T14:46:00","slug":"motor-city-bowl-florida-atlantic-vs-central-michigan-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/motor-city-bowl-florida-atlantic-vs-central-michigan-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor City Bowl: Florida Atlantic vs. Central Michigan Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Florida Atlantic Owls got a bowl bid at 6-6 after winning an overtime game to end the regular season. The Central Michigan Chippewas lost another high-scoring game to end the year at 8-4. Now both teams will be trying to pick up a win December 26 when they battle at Ford Field in the Motor City Bowl. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Chippewas listed as 7-point favorites versus the Owls, while the game’s total is sitting at 68. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida Atlantic came back in the dying seconds and then prevailed in overtime with a 57-50 victory over Florida International in Week 14. Florida Atlantic covered the 4.5-point spread, and the combined 107 points sailed OVER the posted total of 50.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rusty Smith threw five touchdown passes and finished with 389 yards passing in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Central Michigan<\/st1:place> lost to Eastern Michigan<\/st1:place> 56-52 as an 11-point favorite in their last game. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (64). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dan LeFevour threw for 378 yards with four touchdowns and an interception for Central Michigan<\/st1:place> and Antonio Brown had seven receptions for 172 yards with a TD. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> Atlantic<\/st1:place>: 6-6 SU, 7-5 ATS
Central Michigan: 8-4 SU, 6-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida Atlantic most recently:
When playing in December are 2-1
When playing on turf are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing outside the conference are 4-6<\/p>\n

Central Michigan most recently:
When playing in December are 2-1
When playing on turf are 8-2
After being outgained are 6-4
When playing outside the conference are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Florida Atlantic is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Florida Atlantic’s last 10 games
Florida Atlantic is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games
Central Michigan is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Central Michigan’s last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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Florida Atlantic Owls got a bowl bid at 6-6 after winning an overtime game to end the regular season. The Central Michigan Chippewas lost another high-scoring game to end the year at 8-4. Now both teams will be trying to pick up a win December 26 when they battle at Ford Field in the Motor … Continue reading Motor City Bowl: Florida Atlantic vs. Central Michigan Preview<\/span> →<\/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-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}