{"id":6209,"date":"2009-10-29T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/college-football-betting-longhorns-aim-to-continue-oklahoma-state-dominance\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T20:07:00","slug":"college-football-betting-longhorns-aim-to-continue-oklahoma-state-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/college-football-betting-longhorns-aim-to-continue-oklahoma-state-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Betting &#8211; Longhorns Aim To Continue Oklahoma State Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Like the two teams in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/baseball\/mlb\/world-series-odds\" title=\"2009 World Series odds\" id=xotl>2009 World Series odds<\/a>, No.3 Texas was a preseason favorite to head to the BCS version of the World Series. The Longhorns will head to <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Stillwater<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> to face No.14 Oklahoma State, who haven&#8217;t beaten the Longhorns since 1997, but have a great chance to play spoiler, as well as grab pole position in the Big 12 South.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Texas <span class=SpellE>vs<\/span> Oklahoma State Odds &#8211; Saturday, October 31, 8:00 PM ET<\/span><\/font><\/b><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Longhorns (7-0, 4-0) had their best performance of the year, by far, in a 41-7 rout of <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> on the road, as Colt McCoy completed his first 11 pass attempts en route to a 26-of-31 performance, throwing for 269 yards, three touchdowns and a pick. The <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> defense, which is now second in the country behind <st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, held the Tigers to 173 yards and they also forced two turnovers. The Longhorns finally showed why they were the pick of many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\" title=\"online sports betting\" id=ly3q>online sports betting<\/a> players before the season, and if they&#8217;re just starting to hit their stride, <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> will be a tough team to overcome in January.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Cowboys (6-1, 3-0) rolled to a 34-7 win at Baylor, and <span class=SpellE>Zac<\/span> Robinson was 23-of-27 for 250 yards and three touchdowns to lead the way. Many thought that Robinson would suffer without All-American receiver <span class=SpellE>Dez<\/span> Bryant, who was suspended by the NCAA after three games, but he&#8217;s averaged 236.2 yards since losing Bryant, tossing seven touchdowns against two picks. The defense has improved since they gave up 45 points against <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in the second game of the season, and they held the Bears to 284 yards. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Longhorns are favored by 8.5 points in your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\" title=\"offshore sportsbook\" id=wjg.>offshore sportsbook<\/a>&nbsp;on the road, as they&#8217;ve won 11 in a row over the Cowboys and 21 of 23 overall in the series. Defense will be the name of the game on Saturday night under the lights in <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Stillwater<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as both are much improved on that side of the ball. But McCoy has more dependable weapons than Robinson, and the <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> defense can get a lot of pressure on the quarterback. Everyone has been talking about <st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and <st1:State><st1:place>Alabama<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> this year, but this could be the week <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> steps into the picture more clearly.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa-football-lines.com\/\" title=\"NCAA football predictions\">NCAA football predictions<\/a>: <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> -8.5<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>Like the two teams in the 2009 World Series odds, No.3 Texas was a preseason favorite to head to the BCS version of the World Series. The Longhorns will head to Stillwater to face No.14 Oklahoma State, who haven&#8217;t beaten the Longhorns since 1997, but have a great chance to play spoiler, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/college-football-betting-longhorns-aim-to-continue-oklahoma-state-dominance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College Football Betting &#8211; Longhorns Aim To Continue Oklahoma State Dominance<\/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-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","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=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}