{"id":10256,"date":"2010-11-04T20:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10256"},"modified":"2010-11-04T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T21:34:34","slug":"college-football-free-picks-baylor-bears-at-oklahoma-state-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-free-picks-baylor-bears-at-oklahoma-state-cowboys-10256\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Free Picks: Baylor Bears at Oklahoma State Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baylor Bears at Oklahoma State Cowboys
\nSaturday, 11\/6\/2010, 12:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 71.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 73
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -310 \/ Baylor +260<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears rank eighth nationally in passing offense behind the arm of quarterback Robert Griffin III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baylor heads to Stillwater, Oklahoma where first place will be on the line in the Big 12 South in Saturday\u2019s contest against the Oklahoma State Cowboys.\u00a0 \u201cThe tide has changed.\u00a0 This year, we\u2019re the team to beat,\u201d said quarterback Robert Griffin III.\u00a0 He currently ranks eighth nationally with 288 passing yards per game and has given hope to a team that has finished last or tied for last in its division 13 times in 14 previous Big 12 seasons.\u00a0 This will be the 29th meetings between the two teams with the Bears trailing 12-16 in the series after dropping a 34-7 contest in Waco last year.\u00a0 Head coach Art Briles knows his team will need to play a perfect game to pull off the minor upset.\u00a0 \u201cThey are a really fine football team,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cProbably over the last eight to 10 years, they have been one of the more prominent teams in the Big 12.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 13-8 ATS versus conference opponents and is listed as a eight-point underdog on the college football lines page.<\/p>\n

The Bears are 7-2 for the first time since 1991 and are bowl-eligible for the first time since the 1995 season, which they didn\u2019t receive a bid.\u00a0 Baylor\u2019s four conference wins are the most by the program in the Big 12 era.\u00a0 Much of that success can be attributed to an offensive unit that is leading the conference in scoring with 40.2 points per game during Big 12 play.\u00a0 After winning just two road games in the first two years under Briles, Baylor is 3-1 on the road in 2010.\u00a0 \u201cI love away games,\u201d said defensive tackle Phil Taylor.\u00a0 \u201cIt pumps me up because I feel like everyone is going against us.\u00a0 But when you\u2019re doing good, you can almost hear a pin drop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State picked up a 24-14 road win over Kansas State last week despite missing wide receiver Justin Blackmon, who was sitting out due to an off-field incident.\u00a0 He still leads the nation with 158.9 receiving yards per game and 14 receiving touchdowns.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s obvious with what he has done all year that it\u2019ll be nice to have him back,\u201d said quarterback Brandon Weeden.\u00a0 The win improved the Cowboys to 3-0 on the road this season and have now registered three-game road winning streaks in consecutive seasons.\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s contest will mark the first time that both teams will be ranked, while Oklahoma State has registered a 3-1 record as a top 25 team.\u00a0 The squad is a perfect 8-0 ATS as a favorite of 3.5 to 10 points over the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have won at least seven games for five straight seasons for the first time ever and one more win would give them at least eight in three straight campaigns for just the third time in school history.\u00a0 It\u2019s a surprising result when considering twenty-one different players have made their first career starts in 2010.\u00a0 The program has a good chance of picking up an eighth victory due to holding a significant 13-1 advantage in the series during the Big 12 era.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in the Bears 10-4 ATS record on the road, while the favorite is 10-1 ATS in their last 11 meetings.<\/p>\n

Get winning football picks from the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports for all of Saturday’s gridiron action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baylor Bears at Oklahoma State Cowboys Saturday, 11\/6\/2010, 12:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 71.5 Current Total:\u00a0 73 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -310 \/ Baylor +260 Baylor heads to Stillwater, Oklahoma where first place will be on the line in the Big 12 South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3698,3288,3267,3187,3548,1141,3697],"class_list":["post-10256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-art-briles","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-brandon-weeden","tag-justin-blackmon","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-robert-griffin-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10260,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions\/10260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}