The recipe for success for Temple on offense is simple … hand the ball to running back Bernard Price. With Price toting the rock the Owls are 9th in the country at rushing the ball with an average of 252.1 yards per game on the ground, and Price’s mark of 118 per game is tops in the MAC. Price will likely cross the 1,000-yard mark in Wednesday’s game (sitting at 951 currently), and his 18 touchdowns also leads the MAC.
Temple and Ohio are ranked first and second in scoring defense and total defense in the MAC, with the Owls numbers (263.2 ypg; 10 ppg) quite a bit better than the solid numbers turned in by the Bobcats (320.5 ypg; 20.4 ppg).
Temple is tops in the league in just about every defensive category recorded, including pass defense (172.8 ypg), pass defense efficiency, sacks (23), first downs allowed (14 per game) and third-down conversions (29.2 percent). About the only category they don’t control in the MAC as far as defense goes is interceptions, which ironically is led by the Bobcats with 12 so far through eight games. With the two best defenses in the MAC going against each other, the play is Temple + under.
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