{"id":2513,"date":"2008-10-31T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/nebraska-oklahoma-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T02:45:00","slug":"nebraska-oklahoma-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/nebraska-oklahoma-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska-Oklahoma Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Oklahoma Sooners will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Memorial Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Sooners listed as 21-point favorites versus the Cornhuskers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 71. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Joe Ganz threw for three touchdowns to lead <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>Nebraska<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> to a 32-20 win over Baylor in Week 9. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cornhuskers failed to cover the 14-point spread, while the combined score played UNDER the day&#8217;s posted total of 57. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">DeMarco Murray racked up 167 total yards and four touchdowns as <st1:State><st1:place>Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> sustained a 21-point <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Kansas<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> rally in the highest-scoring first half in school history to win 58-35 in Week 9. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Sooners covered the 18.5-point spread, while the combined score played OVER the day&#8217;s posted total of 71. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Nebraska<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Nebraska<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 5-3 SU, 4-4 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma: 7-1 SU, 5-2 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:State><st1:place>Nebraska<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 6-4<br \/>When playing on grass are 5-5<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the conference are 3-7<\/p>\n<p><st1:State><st1:place>Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 8-2<br \/>When playing on grass are 8-2<br \/>After being outgained are 9-1<br \/>When playing within the conference are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Nebraska&#8217;s last 9 games on the road<br \/>Nebraska is 6-13 ATS in its last 19 games <br \/>Nebraska is 3-7-1 ATS in its last 11 games on the road<br \/>Nebraska is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Oklahoma<br \/>Oklahoma is 22-3 SU in its last 25 games at home<br \/>Oklahoma is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Oklahoma&#8217;s last 7 games <br \/>Oklahoma is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Nebraska<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Nebraska<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, November 8<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Oklahoma<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Texas A&amp;M, Saturday, November 8<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><b><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><b><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Oklahoma Sooners will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Memorial Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Sooners listed as 21-point favorites versus the Cornhuskers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 71. Joe Ganz threw for three touchdowns to lead Nebraska to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/nebraska-oklahoma-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nebraska-Oklahoma Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}