{"id":3165,"date":"2008-12-29T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/alamo-bowl-northwestern-vs-missouri-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-29T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:40:00","slug":"alamo-bowl-northwestern-vs-missouri-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/alamo-bowl-northwestern-vs-missouri-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Alamo Bowl: Northwestern vs. Missouri Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Missouri Tigers tumbled all the way down to the bowl ladder to the Alamo Bowl with their Big 12 title game loss to Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. Now they will settle for a match against Northwestern December 29 at the Alamodome against the 9-3 Huskies. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 13-point favorites versus the Wildcats, while the game’s total is sitting at 66. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
C.J. Bacher threw for two touchdown and Stephen Simmons ran in another as Northwestern beat Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 27-10 in Week 13. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Wildcats won as 3-point underdogs, while the combined score played UNDER the day’s posted total of 54.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was defeated 62-21 by Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in the Big 12 title game as 16.5-point underdogs last time out. The 83 points made it OVER the posted total of 79. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chase Daniel threw for 252 yards with three touchdowns in a losing effort for Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Northwestern: 9-3 SU, 6-5 ATS
Missouri: 9-4 SU, 5-7 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Northwestern most recently:
When playing in December are 0-3
When playing on turf are 4-6
After outgaining opponent are 8-2
When playing outside the conference are 8-2<\/p>\n

Missouri most recently:
When playing in December are 2-6
When playing on turf are 7-3
After being outgained are 7-3
When playing outside the conference are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Northwestern’s last 5 games
Northwestern is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games
Northwestern is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games
Missouri is 16-5 SU in its last 21 games
Missouri is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Missouri Tigers tumbled all the way down to the bowl ladder to the Alamo Bowl with their Big 12 title game loss to Oklahoma. Now they will settle for a match against Northwestern December 29 at the Alamodome against the 9-3 Huskies. Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 13-point favorites versus the Wildcats, … Continue reading Alamo Bowl: Northwestern vs. Missouri 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-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","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=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}