{"id":25500,"date":"2012-10-16T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2012-10-16T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:39:07","slug":"baylor-bears-vs-texas-longhorns-college-football-week-8-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/baylor-bears-vs-texas-longhorns-college-football-week-8-predictions-25500\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor Bears vs. Texas Longhorns: College Football Week 8 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baylor Bears at Texas Longhorns
\nSaturday, 10\/20\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV: \u00a0ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 82
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 80.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Baylor Bears WR Terrance Williams leads the nation in receiving yards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baylor has won back-to-back games in this series, but has never won three straight against Texas in this in-state rivalry.\u00a0 The Bears have suffered consecutive losses to the TCU Horned Frogs and West Virginia Mountaineers, while going OVER in all four opportunities this year.\u00a0 The Bears\u2019 highest-octane offense leads the nation in averaging 398.4 passing yards per game, as they\u2019ve managed to score 30-plus points in 10 of their last 11 games.\u00a0 Baylor is 0-2 ATS off a home loss against a conference rival the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bears have tallied a plus-six turnover margin in their four wins, but have lost the battle by seven miscues in their two setbacks.\u00a0 Baylor is in the midst of a six-week stretch that includes one home game and four road contests.\u00a0 Quarterback Nick Florence has filled in admirably for Robert Griffin III, as he\u2019ll likely target wide receiver Terrance Williams, who leads the nation with 830 receiving yards.\u00a0 Prior to being held to 432 total yards against TCU, the team had posted more than 500 yards of total offense in 10 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Texas suffered its second-straight loss in embarrassing fashion last week, as it was out-gained by a 388-yard margin in a 63-21 setback to the Oklahoma Sooners as three-point neutral-site underdogs.\u00a0 The Longhorns have been absolutely dreadful defensively in all facets, which includes ranking 111th nationally in allowing opponents to rush for 5.14 yards per carry.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to note that three of the team\u2019s last four opponents had an offense among the top 10 nationally.\u00a0 Texas is 2-0 ATS after allowing 35 points or more in two consecutive losses against conference teams.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns have totaled at least 400 total yards against the Bears in 18 of the last 19 meetings, including 557 in last year\u2019s 48-24 defeat as 1.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 Texas is 41-10 at this particular venue against Big 12 opponents during the Mack Brown era, which happens to be the second-most victories at home in that situation among conference teams over the last 15 years.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Longhorns due to their 5-2 ATS record after two or more consecutive losses versus the number, while the Bears are 1-6 ATS on the road with a total of 63 or higher.<\/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":"

Baylor Bears at Texas Longhorns Saturday, 10\/20\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV: \u00a0ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 82 Current Total:\u00a0 80.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Baylor has won back-to-back games in this series, but has never won three straight against Texas in this in-state rivalry.\u00a0 The Bears have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3288,3267,3234,7033,7092,496],"class_list":["post-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12-conference","tag-mack-brown","tag-nick-florence","tag-terrance-williams","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500","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=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25502,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions\/25502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}