{"id":18933,"date":"2011-10-28T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18933"},"modified":"2011-10-28T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:01:42","slug":"college-football-predictions-week-9-oklahoma-sooners-vs-kansas-state-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-predictions-week-9-oklahoma-sooners-vs-kansas-state-wildcats-18933\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Predictions Week 9: Oklahoma Sooners vs. Kansas State Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners at No. 8 Kansas State Wildcats
\nSaturday, 10\/29\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 59.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 58
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners are 19-7 ATS following a straight-up loss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma comes in off a disappointing 41-38 loss to the Texas Tech Red Raiders as 29-point home favorites, possibly knocking the program out of contention of reaching the BCS Championship Game.\u00a0 \u201cEvery team\u2019s going to face adversity and it\u2019s the good teams that deal with it the best,\u201d commented Sooners linebacker Travis Lewis.\u00a0 \u201cSo, hopefully we\u2019ve got strong guys that are going to deal with it the right way.\u201d\u00a0 Oklahoma leads the series, 70-14-4, but is just 3-4 when both teams come in nationally ranked.\u00a0 Over the last two-plus seasons, the team is 3-7 ATS as a road favorite and the \u2018under\u2019 is 7-3 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Sooners are averaging 545 yards per game, but have failed to be consistent throughout the year.\u00a0 Quarterback Landry Jones still has a completion rate of 60 percent\u00a0 or higher in every game this season, while throwing for over 350 yards in all but one.\u00a0 His main target is senior wide receiver Ryan Broyles, who set the NCAA career receptions record against Kansas two weeks ago.\u00a0 The offensive line has been a strength all season in protecting Jones and the passing game, allowing just three sacks.<\/p>\n

Kansas State is coming off a dominating 59-21 win over Kansas in the Sunflower Showdown, setting up a high-profile contest this Saturday.\u00a0 Wildcats head coach Bill Snyder knows that the Sooners are going to come out angry after last week\u2019s loss.\u00a0 \u201cI know how they\u2019ll respond,\u201d commented Snyder.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m going to send Bobby and his staff jokes out of the newspaper on a regular basis and try to lighten the mood a little bit.\u201d\u00a0 Kansas State is 6-1 ATS this season and the \u2018over\u2019 is 4-2 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats rank in the top 30 nationally in four defensive categories, including scoring defense and total defense.\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s matchup will be the sixth in the history of the series that the Wildcats head into the game with a higher national ranking than the Sooners, holding a 4-1 edge in those contests.\u00a0 Following last week\u2019s win over Kansas, the program is one of only eight remaining unbeaten teams in the country.\u00a0 Under Snyder, Kansas State has opened 8-0 a total of two times.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has made 38 trips inside the red zone, coming away with scores in 33 of those trips.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Sooners due to their 19-7 ATS mark following a straight-up loss, while the Wildcats are 1-7 ATS at home versus a team with a winning road record.<\/p>\n

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No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners at No. 8 Kansas State Wildcats Saturday, 10\/29\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 59.5 Current Total:\u00a0 58 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma comes in off a disappointing 41-38 loss to the Texas Tech Red Raiders as 29-point home favorites, […]<\/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":[2807,3235,408,3709],"class_list":["post-18933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-landry-jones","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-ryan-broyles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933","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=18933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18934,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions\/18934"}],"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=18933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}