{"id":6667,"date":"2009-12-05T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/abc-big-12-conference-championship-game-texas-vs-nebraska\/"},"modified":"2009-12-05T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T14:27:00","slug":"abc-big-12-conference-championship-game-texas-vs-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/abc-big-12-conference-championship-game-texas-vs-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Big 12 Conference Championship Game: Texas vs Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>Courtesy of OddsShark.com <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Texas Longhorns and the Nebraska Cornhuskers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Cowboys 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 Longhorns listed as 14\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cornhuskers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 47. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Colt McCoy threw four TD passes and ran for anther as <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> defeated rival Texas A&amp;M 49-39 in Week 13. <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> failed to cover the 20.5-point spread, while the 88 points sailed OVER the posted total of 63. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">McCoy completed 24-of-40 pass attempts for 302 yards for <st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, while Jordan Shipley and James Kirkendoll caught a pair of touchdown passes in that win. <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> had a 14-point lead at halftime and held on for a 28-20 victory over <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 13. <st1:State><st1:place>Nebraska<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> failed to cover the 10-point spread, but the 48 points made it OVER the posted total of 61. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rex Burkhead ran for 101 yards with a touchdown to lead the way. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 12 straight games.<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Nebraska<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 5 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>Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 12-0 SU, <st1:date Month=\"5\" Day=\"6\" Year=\"2001\">5-6-1<\/st1:date> ATS <br \/>Nebraska: 9-3 SU, 8-4 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Texas most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 6-4<br \/>When playing on turf are 8-2<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 10-0<br \/>When playing within the conference are 10-0<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 6-4<br \/>When playing on turf are 8-2<br \/>After being outgained are 6-4<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 \/>Texas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Texas is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Nebraska<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Texas&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Texas is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games <br \/>Nebraska is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Nebraska&#8217;s last 8 games <br \/>Nebraska is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games <br \/>Nebraska is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games when playing Texas<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/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>Courtesy of OddsShark.com The Texas Longhorns and the Nebraska Cornhuskers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Cowboys Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Longhorns listed as 14\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cornhuskers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 47. Colt McCoy threw four TD passes and ran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/abc-big-12-conference-championship-game-texas-vs-nebraska\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABC Big 12 Conference Championship Game: Texas vs Nebraska<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","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=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}