{"id":3130,"date":"2008-12-27T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/champs-sports-bowl-wisconsin-vs-florida-state-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T14:47:00","slug":"champs-sports-bowl-wisconsin-vs-florida-state-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/champs-sports-bowl-wisconsin-vs-florida-state-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Champs Sports Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Florida State Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Two teams that had higher hopes in 2008 than the Champs Sports Bowl will hook up Dec. 27 at Florida Citrus Bowl. Wisconsin Badgers (7-5) of the Big Ten and the ACC’s Florida State Seminoles (8-4) will both be gunning for a bowl victory to soothe a disappointing season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Seminoles listed as 6-point favorites versus the Badgers, while the game’s total is sitting at 52. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Wisconsin<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> needed overtime to beat Cal Poly 36-35 in their regular-season finale. Dustin Sherer had one TD strike and one interception in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Drew Weatherford could only total 62 yards passing, while Jermaine Thomas rushed for one TD and 37 yards as Florida<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> lost 45-15 to Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 14. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Seminoles did not cover the 17-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the posted total of 53.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Wisconsin<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 7-5 SU, 5-6 <\/font>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName>
Florida<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 8-4 SU, 5-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Wisconsin most recently:
When playing in December are 3-1
When playing on grass are 5-5
After outgaining opponent are 7-3
When playing outside the conference are 9-1<\/p>\n

Florida State most recently:
When playing in December are 3-1
When playing on grass are 6-4
After being outgained are 6-4
When playing outside the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Wisconsin<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Florida<\/st1:PlaceName> State’s last 6 games
Florida<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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Two teams that had higher hopes in 2008 than the Champs Sports Bowl will hook up Dec. 27 at Florida Citrus Bowl. Wisconsin Badgers (7-5) of the Big Ten and the ACC’s Florida State Seminoles (8-4) will both be gunning for a bowl victory to soothe a disappointing season. Oddsmakers currently have the Seminoles listed … Continue reading Champs Sports Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Florida State 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-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","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=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}