{"id":30554,"date":"2013-10-07T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30554"},"modified":"2013-10-07T14:02:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T19:02:24","slug":"red-river-rivalry-betting-preview-texas-longhorns-vs-oklahoma-sooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/red-river-rivalry-betting-preview-texas-longhorns-vs-oklahoma-sooners-30554\/","title":{"rendered":"Red River Rivalry Betting Preview: Texas Longhorns vs. Oklahoma Sooners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Longhorns vs. Oklahoma Sooners
\nSaturday, 10\/12\/13, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -11.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 56
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 56
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners are 5-8 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Texas improved to 2-0 in the Big 12 Conference last Thursday by picking up a 31-30 victory over the Iowa State Cyclones as seven-point road favorites, while going OVER the betting total for the fourth time in five contests this season.\u00a0 The Longhorns are 59-43-5 all-time in this series, as they enter as the only Big 12 team that holds an all-time series lead against the Sooners, which is important to consider when making your college football betting picks Saturday.\u00a0 Texas is 0-2 SUATS as underdogs of 10.5 to 21 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns will send out Case McCoy for his second-career start, as first-team quarterback David Ash continues to deal with concussion symptoms.\u00a0 Texas is averaging 459.0 yards of total offense, which ranks 39th in the nation, with the numbers coming out to 192.2 on the ground and 266.8 through the air.\u00a0 Running back Johnathan Bray leads the team with 439 rushing yards.\u00a0 The program has gone 153-45 under head coach Mack Brown\u2014resulting in the nation\u2019s fourth-most victories over that 16-year span.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma is off to a 5-0 start for the ninth time under longtime head coach Bob Stoops, which includes accomplishing that feat three times in the last four seasons.\u00a0 The Sooners have either been tied for leading at halftime in their last 10 regular season games, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page. \u00a0 \u00a0 Under Stoops\u2019 direction, the team has compiled a dominating 47-12 overall record in the month of October.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 10-3 SU and 5-8 ATS as favorites of 10.5 to 21 points since 2011, with the OVER going 7-6 in those 13 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Sooners have won 10 straight conference games dating back to last season\u2019s opener in that situation\u2014the third-longest winning streak of its kind in team history.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 58-1 in its last 59 games when finishing with 203 or more yards on the ground.\u00a0 On the other side of the football, the team leads the Big 12 in pass and third-down defense.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Sooners due to their 4-1 ATS mark in their last five neutral site 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":"

Texas Longhorns vs. Oklahoma Sooners Saturday, 10\/12\/13, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -11.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 56 Current Total:\u00a0 56 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Texas improved to 2-0 in the Big 12 Conference last Thursday by picking up a 31-30 victory over the Iowa State Cyclones as seven-point road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,2961,5525,3234,408,5505,496],"class_list":["post-30554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bob-stoops","tag-case-mccoy","tag-mack-brown","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-red-river-rivalry","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30554","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=30554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30556,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30554\/revisions\/30556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}