{"id":29792,"date":"2013-08-26T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29792"},"modified":"2013-08-26T20:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T01:08:32","slug":"ncaa-football-week-1-picks-mississippi-state-bulldogs-vs-oklahoma-state-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-football-week-1-picks-mississippi-state-bulldogs-vs-oklahoma-state-cowboys-29792\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football Week 1 Picks: Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. No. 13 Oklahoma State Cowboys
\nSaturday, 8\/31\/13, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -11
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -12.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 59
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 60
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma State Cowboys are 25-7 in their L32 season openers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mississippi State is 4-0 in season openers under current head coach Dan Mullen\u2014winning those games by an average of 43.8 points.\u00a0 The Bulldogs haven\u2019t won five consecutive in this situation since winning eight in a row from 1994-2001.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the program is 11-19 when kicking off a season against an opponent that hails from a BCS conference, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NCAA football picks Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Mississippi State is 2-7 as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 9-0 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs are 11-11-2 against teams that currently comprise the Big 12 Conference, while they\u2019ve gone 14-2 in regular-season non-conference games under Mullen\u2019s direction, including wins in their last 13 games in that situation.\u00a0 Mississippi State will be taking on a ranked opponent for its season opener for just the seventh time in school history\u2014producing a 1-5 record in those contests.\u00a0 Four of the team\u2019s five offensive linemen started all 13 games a season ago.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State is 8-1 in its last nine games versus current members of Southeastern Conference opponents, which is important to consider when looking over the NCAA Football odds page.\u00a0 The Cowboys are 25-7 in their last 32 season openers, while they\u2019ve won 24 of their last 27 games against unranked opponents.\u00a0 Under head coach Mike Gundy, the team has racked up a 9-6 record against SEC foes.\u00a0 Oklahoma State is 7-1 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points the last two seasons, with the OVER going 8-0 in those eight opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are the only team to rank in the top 10 nationally each of the last three years in total offense, scoring offense and passing offense.\u00a0 Oklahoma State ranks second in college football in averaging 46.2 points since 2010\u2014behind only the Oregon Ducks in that category.\u00a0 The program is breaking in two new coordinators in the same season for the first time since 2005, which happened to be Gundy\u2019s first season in Stillwater.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 5-0 in the Cowboys last five non-conference 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":"

Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. No. 13 Oklahoma State Cowboys Saturday, 8\/31\/13, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma State -12.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 59 Current Total:\u00a0 60 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Mississippi State is 4-0 in season openers under current head coach Dan Mullen\u2014winning those games by an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[738,586,2256,2898,1141,739],"class_list":["post-29792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12","tag-dan-mullen","tag-mike-gundy","tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29792","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=29792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29794,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29792\/revisions\/29794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}