{"id":25624,"date":"2012-10-23T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25624"},"modified":"2012-10-23T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:49:30","slug":"texas-longhorns-vs-kansas-jayhawks-college-football-week-9-picks-against-the-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/texas-longhorns-vs-kansas-jayhawks-college-football-week-9-picks-against-the-spread-25624\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns vs. Kansas Jayhawks: College Football Week 9 Picks Against the Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 23 Texas Longhorns at Kansas Jayhawks
\nSaturday, 10\/27\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas -21
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas -21
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 61
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 59
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Texas Longhorns have gone OVER the total in five consecutive games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas earned a 56-50 victory over the Baylor Bears last week in the highest scoring game in school history, while going OVER the total for the fifth consecutive week.\u00a0 The Longhorns rank sixth in the nation in scoring, averaging 44.4 points per game, as they\u2019ve managed to convert 55.3 percent of their third-down attempts.\u00a0 The program will be playing Saturday\u2019s opponent for the 12th time, posting a 9-2 mark in the previous two meetings, including a nine-game win streak by an average 32.1 points.\u00a0 Texas is 3-2 ATS as a favorite of 21.5 to 31 points, with the UNDER going 4-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns will need to force a few miscues in order to cover this number, as they ranked tied for 18th nationally with a plus-one per game turnover margin.\u00a0 Texas has outscored its opponents by a 77-10 margin this season off turnovers.\u00a0 Four of the team\u2019s last five opponents had an offense ranked among the top 10 nationally in either scoring or total offense.<\/p>\n

Kansas has suffered six consecutive losses since a season-opening victory against South Dakota State, as the offense has failed to score over 24 points during the losing streak.\u00a0 The Jayhawks were handed a 52-7 setback by the Oklahoma Sooners as 34.5-point road underdogs last week, with the OVER cashing for the second time in three weeks in that affair.\u00a0 Kansas is 2-5 ATS as an underdog of 21.5 to 31 points, with the UNDER going 5-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks are 89th in total offense and 85th in total defense, which doesn\u2019t offer much to be enthusiastic about in this matchup.\u00a0 Kansas isn\u2019t the type of team that can spread out an opponent, which has posed a problem to Texas in recent weeks.\u00a0 Running back James Sims will need to be dynamic in hopes of pulling off an upset, as he\u2019s gone over the century mark in rushing in three straight games.\u00a0 His eight 100-yard performances moves him into a tie for seventh all-time at the school in that particular category.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 5-2 in the Jayhawks\u2019 last seven games 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. 23 Texas Longhorns at Kansas Jayhawks Saturday, 10\/27\/12, 12:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas -21 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas -21 Opening Total:\u00a0 61 Current Total:\u00a0 59 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas earned a 56-50 victory over the Baylor Bears last week in the highest scoring game in school history, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,7102,34,496],"class_list":["post-25624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-james-sims","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624","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=25624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25625,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624\/revisions\/25625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}