{"id":11037,"date":"2010-11-26T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T04:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11037"},"modified":"2010-11-26T23:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T04:51:38","slug":"ncaa-football-picks-oklahoma-sooners-at-oklahoma-state-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-picks-oklahoma-sooners-at-oklahoma-state-cowboys-11037\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Picks: Oklahoma Sooners at Oklahoma State Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma Sooners at Oklahoma State Cowboys
\nSaturday, 11\/27\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 65
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 66.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma State Cowboys are a slight 2.5-point home favorite against in-state rival Oklahoma on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma travels to Stillwater for the regular season finale on a weekend when the Big 12 South title hands in the balance.\u00a0 The Sooners need a win over the Cowboys to reach the conference title game for the eighth time and pursue a seventh championship.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve actually been in this situation nine of the last 11 years, so our guys need to embrace it and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been doing around here,\u201d said head coach Bob Stoops.\u00a0 \u201cHopefully we can do it again.\u201d\u00a0 Oklahoma leads this series 81-16-7 and has won seven in a row by an average margin of 22 points.\u00a0 The current streak ties the fifth-longest OU streak in the series and the longest since 15 straight from 1977-91.\u00a0 The Sooners also hold a 34-6-5 edge in Stillwater.\u00a0 The team is 7-6 ATS on the road the past three years and the NCAA football lines page has them listed as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Sooners are coming off a dominating 53-24 win over the Baylor Bears in Waco last week, sprinting out to a 21-0 lead in the first period and led 34-7 at halftime.\u00a0 Quarterback Landry Jones played just three quarters, but completed 26-of-39 passes for 325 yards with three touchdowns.\u00a0 Oklahoma is playing its final two regular season games on the road for the first time since the 2006 campaign.\u00a0 ESPN\u2019s College GameDay will be covering this contest on Saturday, marking the 25th time it has been broadcast from the site of an Oklahoma game.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State finally snapped head coach Mike Gundy\u2019s 0-10 record in games against Texas and Oklahoma with a win over the Longhorns earlier this year.\u00a0 The Cowboys coach has been reminded of the program\u2019s ineptitude against tonight\u2019s opponent all week leading up to this high-profile game, but his young roster isn\u2019t familiar with the history of the series. \u201cI don\u2019t know the history behind the nickname \u2018Poke Choke\u2019,\u201d quarterback Brandon Weeden stated.\u00a0 \u201cI guess we gave away some games when we were ahead, but I think it should be retired.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 8-1 ATS as a favorite this year and 19-5 ATS in the role the past three campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are 10-1 for the first time in school history and a win guarantees a spot in the conference championship game next week.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re in control of our destiny,\u201d Weeden commented.\u00a0 \u201cWe put ourselves in this position and it\u2019s ours to take.\u201d\u00a0 Oklahoma State\u2019s 16-member senior class will play at home for a final time, having never missed a bowl game and been a part of three-straight nine-win teams.\u00a0 A key factor in tonight\u2019s game will be the Cowboys red zone offense, which leads the country with points on 51 of its 54 chances.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Sooners are 4-0-1 ATS in their last five games as an underdog, while the Cowboys are 7-1 ATS after a SU win.<\/p>\n

The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready for a huge weekend and ready for you to join them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma Sooners at Oklahoma State Cowboys Saturday, 11\/27\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 65 Current Total:\u00a0 66.5 Oklahoma travels to Stillwater for the regular season finale on a weekend when the Big 12 South title hands in the balance.\u00a0 The Sooners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[738,2961,3187,3235,2256,408,1141],"class_list":["post-11037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-bob-stoops","tag-brandon-weeden","tag-landry-jones","tag-mike-gundy","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037","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=11037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11038,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions\/11038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}