{"id":840,"date":"2006-08-30T19:51:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T00:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/labor-day-weekend-previews\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T19:51:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T00:51:34","slug":"labor-day-weekend-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/labor-day-weekend-previews\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Weekend Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<h3>Expected Blowouts and Close Games Saturday Offers <st1:place>Opportunity<\/st1:place><br \/>\nfor Online Gamblers This Weekend <\/h3>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Joe Duffy (<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/p6.hostingprod.com\/@joeduffy.net\/\">JoeDuffy.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>If you want a Labor Day \u201cWinathon\u201d, you must remember our<br \/>\ntheme song: \u201cYou\u2019ll never win alone\u201d.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>With some help from the editors of Sportsline360.com, we take a look at<br \/>\nsome big games Saturday, at least from the standpoint of the bettor. <\/p>\n<h2>North Texas-Texas<\/h2>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:place>North Texas<\/st1:place>\u2019 chance of pulling off<br \/>\nthe upset of historic proportions took a serious hit when it was announced<br \/>\ntheir starting QB Daniel Meager has not fully recovered from a concussion.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Sophomore Matt Rivers gets the start.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Rivers did practice well, throwing four<br \/>\ntouchdowns in three scrimmages. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Stevie Vincent, one of the handicappers on <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a> notes the<br \/>\nnumbers favor the defending National Champions. <st1:place>North Texas<\/st1:place><br \/>\nis 0-9 to the number in non-conference games the last three years, while <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State><br \/>\nis 10-1 ATS on grass. <\/p>\n<h2>Notre Dame-Georgia Tech<\/h2>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Irish come in with very high hopes, ranked No. 2 in<br \/>\nthe country. But their high powered offense goes up against a GA Tech team<br \/>\nranked 13<sup>th<\/sup> against the run last year on defense. Tech has a recent<br \/>\nhistory of winning games they were not expected to. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Irish defense returns nine starters. Checking the<br \/>\ndatabases at <a href=\"http:\/\/betonsports360.com\/\">BetOnSports360.com<\/a>, we<br \/>\nsee that Tech has covered both series meetings the last 10 years. <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Akron-Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place><\/h2>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Everything went right for <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Penn<\/st1:PlaceName><br \/>\n<st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> last year, but they must<br \/>\nreplace QB Michael Robinson, the Big Ten offensive MVP. New starter Anthony<br \/>\nMorelli will have four fellow new starters in front of him on the offensive<br \/>\nline. Note that <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Penn<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place><br \/>\nhas gone under 26-11 to non-conference foes since 1992. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expected Blowouts and Close Games Saturday Offers Opportunity for Online Gamblers This Weekend Joe Duffy (JoeDuffy.net) If you want a Labor Day \u201cWinathon\u201d, you must remember our theme song: \u201cYou\u2019ll never win alone\u201d.\u00a0 With some help from the editors of Sportsline360.com, we take a look at some big games Saturday, at least from the standpoint &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/labor-day-weekend-previews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Labor Day Weekend Previews<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}