{"id":3186,"date":"2009-01-01T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/outback-bowl-iowa-vs-south-carolina-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T15:18:00","slug":"outback-bowl-iowa-vs-south-carolina-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/outback-bowl-iowa-vs-south-carolina-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Outback Bowl: Iowa vs. South Carolina Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Iowa Hawkeyes beat a lot of good teams this year, while the South Carolina Gamecocks seemed to lose to a lot of good teams. What does that mean January 1 when they meet at Raymond James Stadium in the Outback Bowl? <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Hawkeyes listed as 4-point favorites versus the Gamecocks, while the game’s total is sitting at 43. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ricky Stanzi threw for 255 yards with threw touchdowns to lead Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> to a 55-0 drubbing of Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 13. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> easily covered the 7-point spread, and the 55 points made it OVER the posted total of 44.5. Shonn Greene ran for two touchdowns in that win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris Smelley completed 22-of-47 pass attempts for 207 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions for South Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> as they lost 31-14 to Clemson in Week 14. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Gamecocks failed to cover the 1-point spread, while the final score played OVER the posted total of 40.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 8-4 SU, 7-4 ATS
South Carolina: 7-5 SU, 5-5-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Iowa most recently:
When playing in January are 2-2
When playing on grass are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing outside the conference are 6-4<\/p>\n

South Carolina most recently:
When playing in January are 2-0
When playing on grass are 5-5
After being outgained are 5-5
When playing outside the conference are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Iowa is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
Iowa is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Iowa’s last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of South Carolina’s last 7 games
South Carolina is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Iowa Hawkeyes beat a lot of good teams this year, while the South Carolina Gamecocks seemed to lose to a lot of good teams. What does that mean January 1 when they meet at Raymond James Stadium in the Outback Bowl? Oddsmakers currently have the Hawkeyes listed as 4-point favorites versus the Gamecocks, while … Continue reading Outback Bowl: Iowa vs. South Carolina 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-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","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=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}