{"id":3194,"date":"2009-01-01T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/liberty-bowl-east-carolina-vs-kentucky-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:27:00","slug":"liberty-bowl-east-carolina-vs-kentucky-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/liberty-bowl-east-carolina-vs-kentucky-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Bowl: East Carolina vs. Kentucky Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Kentucky<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> lost six of its final eight games, but still earned a bowl berth. God bless the bowl system for finding place for a team that lost 63-5 against Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>.
The fans at the Liberty Bowl will watch the East Carolina Pirates and the Kentucky Wildcats clash January 2. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 3-point favorites versus the Wildcats, while the game’s total is sitting at 42. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ben Hartman’s 36-yard field goal with 1:43<\/st1:time> remaining gave East Carolina<\/st1:place> a 27-24 upset win over Tulsa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in Week 15. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates covered the 12.5-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day’s posted total of 66. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kentucky<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was crushed 28-10 by Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 14 as a 4-point road underdog. The combined 38 points went as a PUSH against the posted total of 38. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alfonso Smith ran for the only touchdown in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
East Carolina<\/st1:place>: 9-4 SU, 5-8 ATS
Kentucky: 6-6 SU, 4-7 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
East Carolina most recently:
When playing on turf are 6-4
After being outgained are 7-3
When playing outside the conference are 4-6
After playing Tulsa are 3-0<\/p>\n

Kentucky most recently:
When playing in January are 0-1
When playing on turf are 4-5
After being outgained are 4-6
When playing outside the conference are 10-0<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of East Carolina’s last 7 games
East Carolina is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
East Carolina is 3-8 ATS in its last 11 games
Kentucky is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
Kentucky is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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Kentucky lost six of its final eight games, but still earned a bowl berth. God bless the bowl system for finding place for a team that lost 63-5 against Florida. The fans at the Liberty Bowl will watch the East Carolina Pirates and the Kentucky Wildcats clash January 2. Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed … Continue reading Liberty Bowl: East Carolina vs. Kentucky 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-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","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=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}