{"id":19270,"date":"2011-11-10T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19270"},"modified":"2011-11-10T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:41:58","slug":"big-12-football-predictions-texas-am-aggies-vs-kansas-state-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/big-12-football-predictions-texas-am-aggies-vs-kansas-state-wildcats-19270\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Football Predictions: Texas A&M Aggies vs. Kansas State Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M Aggies at No. 14 Kansas State Wildcats
\nSaturday, 11\/12\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 66
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 64.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas State Wildcats are 5-1 ATS as an underdog this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas A&M will be aiming to snap a two-game losing streak and also become bowl eligible for the 33rd time in program history with a win Saturday.\u00a0 The Aggies have had all kinds of trouble in the second half this year, getting outscored 101-30 after halftime in their four losses.\u00a0 Offensively, few teams are better than this squad, ranking sixth in the nation in averaging 520.6 yards per game.\u00a0 The team will be missing one of its biggest weapons for the rest of the year though, as leading rusher Christine Michael is out with a torn ACL.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 1-5 ATS versus conference opponents this year, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 5-4 in its nine games.<\/p>\n

The Aggies still have a productive back in Cyrus Gray, who is just 14 rushing yards away from becoming the program\u2019s fifth 3000-yard rusher.\u00a0 Texas A&M also has a capable quarterback in Ryan Tannehill, needing 299 yards for his first 3,000-yard season.\u00a0 The team has taken advantage of its time in the red zone, scoring on 40-of-43 opportunities, which leads the Big 12 Conference and ranks seventh nationally.<\/p>\n

Kansas State comes in on a two-game losing streak, dropping games against the Oklahoma Sooners and Oklahoma State Cowboys.\u00a0 The Wildcats have covered seven of their last nine games, including a 52-45 loss to the Cowboys as 20.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cI think we\u2019re a good football team, we just haven\u2019t proven that recently,\u201d commented Wildcats head coach Bill Snyder.\u00a0 A big part of the team\u2019s success this year has been turnover margin, ranking eighth nationally in that category.\u00a0 Kansas State is 5-1 ATS as an underdog this year.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are led offensively by quarterback Collin Klein, who ranks second among national signal-callers in gaining 100.7 rushing yards per game.\u00a0 Kansas State is 6-8 all-time in this series, but has come away victorious in the last two meetings, including a 62-14 blowout win on Oct. 17, 2009 as five-point home underdogs.\u00a0 Finishing the season strong is one of the staples of this program under Snyder, posting a 43-16 record in November.\u00a0 Kansas State is also 56-24-1 when playing league games at home over the past 20-plus years.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a home underdog of 3.5 to 10 points, while the Aggies are 1-5 ATS versus conference foes.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M Aggies at No. 14 Kansas State Wildcats Saturday, 11\/12\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 66 Current Total:\u00a0 64.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas A&M will be aiming to snap a two-game losing streak and also become bowl eligible for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":16539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,3266,5550,2807,1145],"class_list":["post-19270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bill-snyder","tag-collin-klein","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270","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=19270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19271,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270\/revisions\/19271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}