{"id":18645,"date":"2011-10-15T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18645"},"modified":"2011-10-15T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T15:20:10","slug":"college-football-predictions-week-7-oklahoma-sooners-vs-kansas-jayhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-predictions-week-7-oklahoma-sooners-vs-kansas-jayhawks-18645\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Predictions Week 7: Oklahoma Sooners vs. Kansas Jayhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners at Kansas Jayhawks
\nSaturday, 10\/15\/11, 9:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -35
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -36
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 71.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 72.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oklahoma Sooners can name the score in Lawrence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma can name the score in this one and is coming off a dominating 55-17 win over the Texas Longhorns as 11-point favorites in the Red River Rivalry last week.\u00a0 In fact, the Sooners have outscored their last two opponents by a combined 117-23 margin.\u00a0 The program leads this series, 68-27-6, including a 32-15-4 mark in Lawrence.\u00a0 The most recent game in the series was on Oct. 24, 2009, when an unranked Oklahoma team won over No. 25 Kansas, 35-13, in Lawrence.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 16-14 ATS over the last two-plus seasons and the \u2018under\u2019 is 18-13 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Sooners high-powered offense will be going against a Jayhawks stop unit that ranks last in college football in total defense and scoring defense.\u00a0 Quarterback Landry Jones has completed 62 percent of his passes in every game this season and has been over 350 yards in all but one.\u00a0 His main target continues to be wide receiver Ryan Broyles, who is No. 1 in the Big 12 Conference in career receptions.\u00a0 The offensive line has given up only three sacks and just 21 tackles for loss.<\/p>\n

Kansas was handed a 70-28 defeat by the Oklahoma State Cowboys last week as 31-point road underdogs, easily going over the 74.5-point total.\u00a0 The Jayhawks were out-gained by just 122 yards, but dropped a 66-24 game on the road against Georgia Tech on Sept. 17, losing the statistical battle by 406 yards.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that Kansas coach Turner Gill has some pride in facing Oklahoma, posting a 10-4 all-time mark as a player and being on the sidelines.\u00a0 Over the last two-plus seasons, Kansas is 4-14 ATS against conference rivals.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks are clearly overmatched but the locker room is looking forward to hosting such an opponent on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cWe view it as an opportunity to play the best team in the nation, and it\u2019s an opportunity to compete against them,\u201d commented Kansas tight end Tim Biere.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a great atmosphere.\u201d\u00a0 Quarterback Jordan Webb is the key to keeping things tight, connecting on 80-of-117 passes for 1,130 yards and 11 touchdowns.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has seen 15 different players come away with a reception.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Sooners are 4-0 ATS on the road, while the Jayhawks are 1-10 ATS in October.<\/p>\n

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No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners at Kansas Jayhawks Saturday, 10\/15\/11, 9:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -35 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -36 Opening Total:\u00a0 71.5 Current Total:\u00a0 72.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma can name the score in this one and is coming off a dominating 55-17 win over the Texas Longhorns as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,34,3235,408,3709],"class_list":["post-18645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-landry-jones","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-ryan-broyles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645","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=18645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18646,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645\/revisions\/18646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}