{"id":5533,"date":"2009-09-11T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/college-football-picks-syracuse-vs-penn-state\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T22:07:00","slug":"college-football-picks-syracuse-vs-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/college-football-picks-syracuse-vs-penn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks: Syracuse vs Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Syracuse Orangemen and the Penn State Nittany Lions will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Beaver Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nittany Lions listed as 28\u00bd-point favorites versus the Orangemen, while the game’s total is sitting at 51. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Greg Paulus threw for 164 yards, one TD and one interception for Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in a 23-20 OT loss to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 1. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Orange<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> did cover the 7-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day’s posted total of 48. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daryll Clark opened the season by throwing for three touchdowns as Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> beat Akron<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in Week 1. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nittany Lions failed to cover the 29-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the day’s posted total of 57. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 0-1 SU, 1-0 <\/font>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName>
Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 1-0 SU, 0-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Syracuse most recently:
When playing in September are 3-7
When playing on grass are 1-9
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing outside the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n

Penn State most recently:
When playing in September are 8-2
When playing on grass are 8-2
After outgaining opponent are 9-1
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 6 of Syracuse’s last 9 games on the road
Syracuse is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games
Syracuse is 3-14 SU in its last 17 games
Syracuse is 1-8 SU in its last 9 games on the road
Penn State is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Penn State is 13-2 SU in its last 15 games
Penn State is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Syracuse<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Northwestern, Saturday, September 19
Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> home to Temple<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, September 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Syracuse Orangemen and the Penn State Nittany Lions will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Beaver Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Nittany Lions listed as 28\u00bd-point favorites versus the Orangemen, while the game’s total is sitting at 51. Greg Paulus threw for 164 yards, one TD … Continue reading College Football Picks: Syracuse vs Penn State<\/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-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","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=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}