{"id":19436,"date":"2011-11-17T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T21:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19436"},"modified":"2011-11-17T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:42:56","slug":"oklahoma-football-sooners-attempt-to-make-it-21-straight-over-the-baylor-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/oklahoma-football-sooners-attempt-to-make-it-21-straight-over-the-baylor-bears-19436\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Football: Sooners Attempt to Make It 21-Straight Over the Baylor Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 5 Oklahoma Sooners at No. 22 Baylor Bears
\nSaturday, 11\/19\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -15.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 75
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 75
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners are 20-0 SU against the Baylor Bears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma is certainly back in the discussion of potentially appearing in the BCS Championship Game and must not overlook Baylor despite winning all 20 prior meetings in this series.\u00a0 \u201cAnd now that we\u2019ve discussed that, all that matters is Baylor,\u201d stated Sooners coach Bob Stoops about all the hypotheticals.\u00a0 The Sooners tallied a 53-24 win as eight-point road favorites in last year\u2019s meeting, but only came away with a 101-yard edge statistically.\u00a0 Bettors will be interested in knowing that the two teams have alternated walking away with a spread victory in the last six meetings.<\/p>\n

The Sooners tallied a 41-25 win over the Texas A&M Aggies before enjoying a bye week, but the victory was costly in losing wide receiver Ryan Broyles, who will finish his career as the all-time leader in NCAA history in receptions.\u00a0 Quarterback Landry Jones certainly has other weapons at his disposal, as he\u2019s thrown 12 touchdowns in the last three games.\u00a0 He ranks second among all active signal-callers in averaging 321.9 passing yards per game.\u00a0 On the defensive end, the unit definitely gets after opposing quarterbacks, tallying 34 sacks in nine games.<\/p>\n

Baylor has won its last two games and comes in off a thrilling 31-30 win over the Kansas Jayhawks as 20.5-point road favorites, something that isn\u2019t very impressive given the opponent.\u00a0 The Bears offense is certainly explosive, averaging 567.4 yards per game, but the defense allows 459.3 yards on the other end.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to note that the unit is the only one in the country that averages over 300-plus passing and 200-plus rushing yards.\u00a0 Baylor is 2-4 ATS versus conference opponents this year, while the \u2018over\u2019 has cashed in five of those six games.<\/p>\n

The Bears are led offensively by quarterback Robert Griffin III, who has completed 74.1 percent of his passes, while throwing just five interceptions in 363 pass attempts.\u00a0 His main target is wide receiver Kendall Wright, averaging nine catches and 119.2 receiving yards per game.\u00a0 Baylor must be respected even with its troubled defensively, playing the seventh-toughest schedule in college football.\u00a0 Griffin III will look to move the squad to 6-0 at home, throwing for 1,580 yards and 17 touchdowns without an interception five games inside Floyd Casey Stadium.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bears due to their 4-0 ATS mark at home, while the Sooners are 4-7 ATS when laying points away from Norman.<\/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":"

No. 5 Oklahoma Sooners at No. 22 Baylor Bears Saturday, 11\/19\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -15.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 75 Current Total:\u00a0 75 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma is certainly back in the discussion of potentially appearing in the BCS Championship Game and must not overlook […]<\/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":[3288,2961,5517,3235,408,3697,3709],"class_list":["post-19436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-bob-stoops","tag-floyd-casey-stadium","tag-landry-jones","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-robert-griffin-iii","tag-ryan-broyles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19436","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=19436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19437,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19436\/revisions\/19437"}],"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=19436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}