{"id":3146,"date":"2008-12-28T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/independence-bowl-northern-illinois-vs-louisiana-tech-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T07:58:00","slug":"independence-bowl-northern-illinois-vs-louisiana-tech-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/independence-bowl-northern-illinois-vs-louisiana-tech-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Bowl: Northern Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> limped home, losing three of four and finishing 6-6 but they still earned a bowl bid. Louisiana Tech, meanwhile, won four of five to finish 7-5 and will shoot for an Independence Bowl win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Bulldogs listed as 1-point favorites versus the Huskies, while the game’s total is sitting at 47. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chandler Harnish went 14-of-24 for 116 yards with two picks for Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> in its 16-0 loss to Navy in Week 14. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Navy covered as 4-point road underdogs as the teams played under the 51-point total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ross Jenkins was 16-for-30 with 259 yards and two touchdowns for Louisiana Tech as they lost 35-31 to Nevada<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 14. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bulldogs did cover the 5-point spread, while the final score played OVER the day’s total of 61. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Northern Illinois<\/st1:place>: 6-6 SU, 6-5 ATS
Louisiana Tech: 7-5 SU, 4-6-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Northern Illinois most recently:
When playing in December are 1-2
When playing on turf are 6-4
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing outside the conference are 2-8<\/p>\n

Louisiana Tech most recently:
When playing in December are 1-4
When playing on turf are 5-5
After being outgained are 6-4
When playing outside the conference are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games
Northern Illinois<\/st1:place> is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Louisiana Tech’s last 5 games
Louisiana Tech is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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Northern Illinois limped home, losing three of four and finishing 6-6 but they still earned a bowl bid. Louisiana Tech, meanwhile, won four of five to finish 7-5 and will shoot for an Independence Bowl win. Oddsmakers currently have the Bulldogs listed as 1-point favorites versus the Huskies, while the game’s total is sitting at … Continue reading Independence Bowl: Northern Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech 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-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}