{"id":3244,"date":"2009-01-06T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/gmac-bowl-ball-state-tulsa-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T12:16:00","slug":"gmac-bowl-ball-state-tulsa-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/gmac-bowl-ball-state-tulsa-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAC Bowl: Ball State-Tulsa Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Ball State Cardinals ruined their perfect season with a loss to Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in the MAC title game and they won’t want the year to end on a losing note when they face the Tulsa Golden Hurricane January 6.
They will be looking for bowl validation at Ladd Peebles Stadium in the GMAC Bowl. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Golden Hurricane listed as 3-point favorites versus the Cardinals, while the game’s total is sitting at 75. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> was upset 42-24 in their regular-season finale last time out, as 16-point favorites. The 66 points made it OVER the posted total of 63.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
MiQuale Lewis ran fro 131 yards and two touchdowns in the loss for Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David Johnson finished with 195 yards passing, only one TD and five interceptions for Tulsa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> as they were upset 27-24 by East Carolina<\/st1:place> in Week 15. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Golden Hurricane failed to cover the 12.5-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day’s posted total of 66. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 12-1 SU, 9-3 ATS
Tulsa: 10-3 SU, 7-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ball State most recently:
When playing in January are 0-1
When playing on turf are 9-1
After outgaining opponent are 9-1
When playing outside the conference are 6-4<\/p>\n

Tulsa most recently:
When playing in January are 1-1
When playing on turf are 9-1
After outgaining opponent are 7-3
When playing outside the conference are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games
Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> is 9-3 ATS in its last 12 games
Tulsa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 16-4 SU in its last 20 games
Tulsa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Ball State Cardinals ruined their perfect season with a loss to Buffalo in the MAC title game and they won’t want the year to end on a losing note when they face the Tulsa Golden Hurricane January 6. They will be looking for bowl validation at Ladd Peebles Stadium in the GMAC Bowl. Oddsmakers … Continue reading GMAC Bowl: Ball State-Tulsa Odds 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-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","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=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}