{"id":20876,"date":"2012-01-06T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20876"},"modified":"2012-01-06T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T16:42:03","slug":"cotton-bowl-2012-kansas-state-wildcats-vs-arkansas-razorbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/cotton-bowl-2012-kansas-state-wildcats-vs-arkansas-razorbacks-20876\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Bowl 2012: Kansas State Wildcats vs. Arkansas Razorbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 8 Kansas State Wildcats vs. No. 6 Arkansas Razorbacks
\nFriday, 1\/6\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arkansas -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Arkansas -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 64
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 63.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas State Wildcats are always a dangerous underdog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas State is set to meet Arkansas during the postseason for the first time and just fifth time overall Friday night inside Cowboys Stadium in the 2012 AT&T Cotton Bowl.\u00a0 The Wildcats will be playing their 15th overall bowl game, with 13 of those coming under the direction of head coach Bill Snyder.\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t have no five-star recruits, four-star recruits,\u201d stated Wildcats cornerback David Garrett.\u00a0 \u201cWe just stick together and do our role.\u201d\u00a0 The program went 7-6 during the 2010 campaign and dropped a 36-34 contest to Syracuse in the Pinstripe Bowl.\u00a0 Kansas State is 7-1 ATS as a underdog of 3.5 to 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats are looking to capture their first postseason victory since 2002, picking up a win over the Arizona State Sun Devils in the Holiday Bowl.\u00a0 Junior quarterback Collin Klein is the key player, ranking second nationally among BCS signal-callers in gaining 1,099 rushing yards.\u00a0 On the defensive side of the ball, Kansas State finished the regular season ranked seventh nationally with a +13 turnover margin, while possessing the 27th-ranked rush defense.<\/p>\n

Arkansas will make its 39th trip to a postseason bowl game and has produced a 12-23-3 record in such contests.\u00a0 The Razorbacks have undergone some coaching changes since the regular season ended, as Paul Petrino will be the offensive coordinator for tonight\u2019s game, while Paul Haynes will handle the defensive side of the ball.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got a mature team, and that helps a lot,\u201d stated Razorbacks head coach Bobby Petrino.\u00a0 \u201cI put more on the players.\u201d\u00a0 The program is 20-5 over its last 25 games, and has registered consecutive 10-win seasons for just the third time in school history.\u00a0 Arkansas is 3-0 ATS versus Big 12 opponents the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks managed to score 47 of 54 times when reaching the red zone this season, while quarterback Tyler Wilson was only the second player in school history to pass for 3,000 or more yards in a season.\u00a0 He leads the Southeastern Conference and ranks 14th nationally with an average of 285.2 passing yards per game.\u00a0 His main targets are Jarius Wright and Joe Adams, as both earned first-team All-SEC honors this season.\u00a0 Wright led the conference with an average of 93.5 receiving yards per game, while Adams averaged 4.1 catches per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Wildcats due to their 7-1 ATS mark as an underdog, while the Razorbacks are 0-4 ATS in bowl games.<\/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. 8 Kansas State Wildcats vs. No. 6 Arkansas Razorbacks Friday, 1\/6\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Arkansas -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Arkansas -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 64 Current Total:\u00a0 63.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas State is set to meet Arkansas during the postseason for the first time and just fifth time […]<\/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":[2448,6318,3266,5485,2807,739,5457],"class_list":["post-20876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-att-cotton-bowl","tag-bill-snyder","tag-cowboys-stadium","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-sec","tag-tyler-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876","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=20876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20877,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20876\/revisions\/20877"}],"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=20876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}