{"id":7376,"date":"2010-08-24T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=7376"},"modified":"2010-08-24T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:54:49","slug":"ncaa-football-odds-its-going-to-be-a-long-year-for-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/ncaa-football-odds-its-going-to-be-a-long-year-for-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Odds: It&#8217;s Going to Be a Long Year For Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s college football preview from <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\">Bodog<\/a> begins with the Michigan Wolverines (12\/1 Big Ten odds). Rich Rodriguez\u2019s defection to the Wolverines managed to screw over not only one but two teams; he left West Virginia in a lurch while winning just eight games for the Wolverines over the past two years. Now his job might be on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan offense did make tremendous strides last year, finishing seventh in the country in yards per game. Quarterback isn\u2019t settled heading into 2010, but whoever wins between Tate Forcier, Denard Robinson, and Devin Gardner should be very effective. They\u2019ll have a pretty talented receiving corps to work with.<\/p>\n<p>After struggling mightily on \u201cD\u201d last year, Michigan is switching to the 3-3-5. The Wolverines are desperate to find answers against the run after allowing over 170 yards per game last year. The secondary is green.<\/p>\n<p>Get your <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sports-betting\/ncaa-college-football.jsp\">NCAA Football Odds<\/a> in the Bodog Sportsbook! <a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=140\">Grandmaster Sports Handicapper<\/a> Joe Duffy\u2019s expert take: The one-time powerhouse is destined for a 7<sup>th<\/sup> place finish. None of our models have them finishing higher than a 5<sup>th<\/sup> place tie and some have them tied for eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Bring back Lloyd Carr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s college football preview from Bodog begins with the Michigan Wolverines (12\/1 Big Ten odds). Rich Rodriguez\u2019s defection to the Wolverines managed to screw over not only one but two teams; he left West Virginia in a lurch while winning just eight games for the Wolverines over the past two years. Now his job might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/ncaa-football-odds-its-going-to-be-a-long-year-for-michigan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCAA Football Odds: It&#8217;s Going to Be a Long Year For Michigan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376","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=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7378,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}