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Published: November 26, 2009
The Temple Owls will make the trip in MAC conference play when they face the Ohio Bobcats in a college football game on Friday morning. Kick off time at Ohio is scheduled for 11AM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPNU. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Temple Owls opened as a 4-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the home underdog Ohio Bobcats, as the Temple Owls are currently a 1-½ point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 46 ½ for the college football betting public to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Temple Owls at –145 with the home underdog Ohio Bobcats bringing back +125 to win without the points on their side.
When these two MAC conference foes met last year it was Temple pulling out a low scoring game 14-10 as a 4 point home favorite. Temple was able to win this game despite 143 total yards on offense. The Owls were able to benefit from 2 fumbles by Ohio and held a +2 turnover margin in the game. This game is for all the marbles in the MAC Conference Eastern division with the winner playing in the MAC Conference championship game next Friday night at Ford Field in Detroit Michigan against the Central Michigan Chippewas. Temple is having an outstanding season sitting at 9-2 on the season and 7-0 in MAC conference play. The team is coming off a 47-13 win last week at home to Kent St. The Owls are a running team averaging over 200 yards rushing over their past 5 games. The team owns a very notable victory this season winning at Navy 27-24 back on October 31st. But the Owls took a huge blow to their MAC conference championship hopes as lead running back Bernard Pierce is out of this game with a shoulder injury. It was a huge blow to the team as Pierce averages 5.8 yards a carry with 224 carries for 1308 yards. Freshman running back Matt Brown is the backup. Brown had 156 yards rushing on 18 attempts last week home against Kent State. Sophomore quarterback Chester Stewart hits on 44% of his passes with 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. On the defensive side the Owls allow 20 points per game and 321 yards on defense ranking 2nd in the MAC. Ohio Bobcats enter this game with an 8-3 record on the season. The team is just 3-2 on their home turf. They are coming off a 38-31 home victory over Northern Illinois last week despite only 247 yards of offense. Ohio is very good against the run allowing just 3.8 yards a carry against their defense. Senior quarterback Theo Scott is hitting on 57% of his passes with 16 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Scott is coming off a three touchdown passing performance last week in victory hitting on 16 of 28 passes. On the ground Chris Garrett is the leading ball carrier averaging 4.4 yards a game. Garrett will be running against the #1 rush defense in the MAC as Temple allows just 3.0 yards a carry. The Owls only give up an average of 103 yards rushing a game against their defense.
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CFB Trend: Temple Owls are 5-0 ATS in their 5 road games this season
The Wagerline consensus has 71.4% of the CFB bettors on Temple -1 1/2
The Wagerline consensus has 55.9% of the CFB bettors playing over 46 1/2
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