{"id":19550,"date":"2011-11-22T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19550"},"modified":"2011-11-22T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:32:11","slug":"lone-star-showdown-texas-longhorns-vs-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/lone-star-showdown-texas-longhorns-vs-texas-am-aggies-19550\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Showdown: Texas Longhorns vs. Texas A&M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 25 Texas Longhorns at Texas A&M Aggies
\nThursday, 11\/24\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 54.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 54
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Texas Longhorns are 1-7 ATS when playing as an underdog the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas heads back on the road and will look to snap a two-game losing streak that includes a 17-13 loss to the Kansas State Wildcats as 7.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 It was a disappointing result when considering the team won the statistical battle by 189 yards.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Longhorns defense held the Wildcats to 121 total yards and eight first downs.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen them play better.\u00a0 It was just an unbelievable performance,\u201d stated Longhorns coach Mack Brown.\u00a0 The program must quickly refocus in trying to gain revenge from a 24-17 home loss in last year\u2019s series meeting as three-point underdogs.\u00a0 Texas is 1-7 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus years, while being 5-5 ATS during the 2011 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns lead this all-time series, 75-37-5, including a 24-22-1 mark when playing in College Station.\u00a0 Texas doesn\u2019t normally play this game on short rest, but will do so for the 26th time, tallying a 14-11 record in those contests.\u00a0 Playing on Thanksgiving Day is nothing new for this rivalry, meeting up for the 63rd time, with Texas posting a 42-19-2 record in those games.\u00a0 Don\u2019t count out Brown and his squad in this Big 12 Conference road game, coming in with a 34-6 record in that particular situation.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M has been a very impressive team statistically all season, out-gaining opponents by an average of 112 yards per game, but has still managed to lost three of four.\u00a0 The Aggies snapped a three-game losing streak with a 61-7 blowout win over the Kansas Jayhawks last week as 31-point home favorites.\u00a0 \u201cIt was huge to get this under our wing,\u201d commented Aggies wide receiver Ryan Swope.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 1-4 ATS as a favorite of 3.5 to 10 points this season and the \u2018over\u2019 has cashed in four of those affairs.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are certainly going to be up against it in the running game, as both Cyrus Gray and Christine Michael will be out of this contest.\u00a0 Texas A&M is one of a few teams that averages 200-plus rushing and 200-plus passing yards.\u00a0 The game will likely be decided through the air with quarterback Ryan Tannehill throwing to Swope and potentially Jeff Fuller, who was benched last week.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Longhorns due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a road underdog of 3.5 to 10 points, while the Aggies are 1-6 ATS versus a team with a winning record.<\/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. 25 Texas Longhorns at Texas A&M Aggies Thursday, 11\/24\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 54.5 Current Total:\u00a0 54 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas heads back on the road and will look to snap a two-game losing streak that includes a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[5126,3234,5811,3711,1145,496,5810],"class_list":["post-19550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-cyrus-gray","tag-mack-brown","tag-ryan-swope","tag-ryan-tannehill","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-thanksgiving-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550","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=19550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19551,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550\/revisions\/19551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}