{"id":9995,"date":"2010-12-30T06:17:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T06:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2010-12-30T06:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T06:17:16","slug":"smu-vs-army-odds-for-armed-forces-bowl-bet-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/smu-vs-army-odds-for-armed-forces-bowl-bet-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU vs. Army Odds For Armed Forces Bowl Bet Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ESPN college football schedule and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=1\">bowl picks against the spread<\/a> <\/span>kicks off Thursday with Army vs. SMU in the Armed Forces Bowl. Southern Methodist is -7 -115 at most <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=13\">sportsbooks<\/a><\/span> with a total of 52.<\/p>\n<p>Army enters 6-6 straight up, 5-6 against the spread having gone over 8-3 this season. SMU is 7-6 outright and 6-7 to the number.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Knights are perceived to be the much better running team but that\u2019s for those who confuse the accuracy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=1398\">ratings vs. rankings<\/a>. In reality, Army gets 4.5 yards per rush to defenses that permit 4.5, 7.5 yards per pass to 7.2, but just 5.0 yards per play to teams that normally allow 5.6, a number that includes special teams.<\/p>\n<p>On defense, Army allows 4.3 yards per rush to squads that normally accumulate 4.2, a generous 7.8 yards per pass to 7.1 and 5.7 yards per play to 5.4.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Methodist rushes for 4.8 yards per carry to defenses that allow an average of 4.4, 7.4 passing yards per attempt to 7.3, getting a nice margin of 6.3 yards per play against foes that are permitting an average of just 5.8.<\/p>\n<p>Their numbers are quite accomplished on defense permitting 3.7 yards per rush versus teams normally getting 4.4, 6.8 yards per pass to 7.3 and a stingy 5.1 yards per pass against teams that usually get 5.8.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=2\">Top expert pick<\/a><\/span> on this game: GodsTips is on a solid as a rock 15-7 run in college football. All four sides for Thursday including a Wise Guy play. GodsTips has hit three straight Wise Guy plays. All the Center of the Handicapping Universe does is win. Are you still on the outside looking in? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Complete premium card is up<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spread betting trends <\/strong>(all records are against the spread): Army is 6-1 as road underdogs, yet 7-18 \u00a0as an underdog of 3.5-10.0, 2-8 to teams with a winning record. SMU is 4-13 as favorites, 0-6 after allowing less than 170 yards passing in their previous game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over\/under trends: <\/strong> Army has gone under 7-0 following a double-digit loss at home. SMU has gone over 10-2 after allowing less than 20 points in their previous game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ESPN college football schedule and bowl picks against the spread kicks off Thursday with Army vs. SMU in the Armed Forces Bowl. Southern Methodist is -7 -115 at most sportsbooks with a total of 52. Army enters 6-6 straight up, 5-6 against the spread having gone over 8-3 this season. SMU is 7-6 outright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/smu-vs-army-odds-for-armed-forces-bowl-bet-pick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SMU vs. Army Odds For Armed Forces Bowl Bet Pick<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","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=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9997,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/9997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}