{"id":5853,"date":"2009-10-01T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/southern-miss-vs-uab-picks-and-vegas-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:07:00","slug":"southern-miss-vs-uab-picks-and-vegas-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/southern-miss-vs-uab-picks-and-vegas-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Miss vs. UAB Picks and Vegas Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While Colorado vs. West Virginia<\/a> may be the marquee game on the Thursday night college football card, it is not necessarily the top contest from a standpoint of beating the college football odds<\/a>.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Southern Mississippi<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place> takes on Alabama Birmingham. Southern Miss is -9.5 at most sportsbooks<\/a> even though UAB<\/span> is the home team. The total is 54.5 at 5 Dimes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If <\/span><\/font>Southern Mississippi<\/st1:place> is to pull of the road rout, they will likely have to do it without two key offensive players. RB Damion<\/span> Fletcher and WR DeAndre<\/span> Brown are both very doubtful. <\/p>\n

Fletcher is the Golden Eagles all-time leading rusher and Brown last year’s top receiver. To make things worse, Fletcher’s replacement Tory Harrison could be limited with a lower leg contusion. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Southern Miss is 3-1 straight up, but 1-2 to the number. Though the home team is 4-0 straight up in their games, the road team is 3-1 in the wallet. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

UAB<\/span><\/font><\/span> is 1-3 straight up and against the spread with their one win and cover coming at home. <\/p>\n

The old adage may be “run and stop the run” but the Blazers struggles are an inability to pass and stop the pass. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Offensively, Alabama-Birmingham is getting 230 rushing yards per game against teams normally allowing just 143. That’s on 6.4 yards per rush to 4.5. However they get a full yard per pass less than their opponents normally give up. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Defensively, they allow 4.2 yards per rush to teams normally getting 4.0 but their pass defense is an abomination allowing 8.6 yards per pass to teams normally getting 6.9. Overall they are allowing 6.5 yards per play to 5.5. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles are above average on offense getting 5.0 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.1, while the passing yards per attempt ratio is 7.2 to 6.5. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

While their pass defense is average, their run defense allows 1.8 yards per rush to teams normally getting 3.0.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Against the spread records: The Golden Eagles are 9-2 their last 11 road games and 0-6 after getting more than 280 yards passing last game. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The Blazers are 10-1 as home underdogs of 3.5-10. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Top expert pick on this game: <\/span><\/font><\/b>Service out of Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is No. 1 since 1992 in all sports combined. They are No. 1 in MLB all-time. Their highest rated plays are Prime Plays. Prime Play on Southern Mississippi\/UAB<\/span> side plus he also has an MLB Prime Play.\u00a0 <\/span>Click now to purchase<\/a> the MasterLockLine’s<\/span> entire rundown for $16. <\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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While Colorado vs. West Virginia may be the marquee game on the Thursday night college football card, it is not necessarily the top contest from a standpoint of beating the college football odds. Southern Mississippi takes on Alabama Birmingham. Southern Miss is -9.5 at most sportsbooks even though UAB is the home team. The total … Continue reading Southern Miss vs. UAB Picks and Vegas 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-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","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=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}