{"id":35778,"date":"2014-10-15T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35778"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:21:31","slug":"college-football-week-8-picks-kansas-state-wildcats-vs-oklahoma-sooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-8-picks-kansas-state-wildcats-vs-oklahoma-sooners-35778\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 8 Picks: Kansas State Wildcats vs. Oklahoma Sooners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas State Wildcats vs. Oklahoma Sooners
\nSaturday, 10\/18\/14, 12:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread: Oklahoma -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line: Oklahoma -7.5
\nOpening Total: 61.5
\nCurrent Total: 58
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners will play their first game in Norman since Sept. 13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas State has compiled a 16-7 SU record after 23 previous mid-season bye weeks under legendary head coach Bill Snyder, which is important to consider when making your Week 8 college football betting picks, as the team was last seen picking up a 45-13 victory over Texas Tech as 14-point home favorites on Oct. 4.\u00a0 The Wildcats are 18-72-4 SU all-time against the Sooners, including a 3-8 mark in Norman under the watch of Snyder.\u00a0 Kansas State is 7-2 SU and 8-0-1 ATS in weeks 5 through 9 the last tow-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats will need a big game out of quarterback Jake Waters, who threw for a career-high 348 yards in last year\u2019s 41-31 defeat to the Sooners as 5.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 Kansas State has done a great job in extending drives this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football odds page, as it ranks seventh nationally in third-down conversion percentage.\u00a0 On the other side of the football, the squad is 15th in the country in allowing just 315.8 yards per game.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma returns home for the first time since Sept. 13, as it comes off a 31-26 victory over the Texas Longhorns as 16.5-point neutral-site favorites last week, while going OVER the betting total in its last three contests.\u00a0 The Sooners are 14-1 SU at home against ranked Big 12 Conference opponents under longtime head coach Bob Stoops, but the only loss came against the Wildcats in 2012.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 6-0 SU and 5-1 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 5-1 in those six opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Sooners will do their best in trying to keep the Wildcats to 21 or fewer points, as their opponent this week has dropped their last 17 games versus top-25 foes when failing to reach that number.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to keep an eye on the scoreboard after 30 minutes of action, as Oklahoma and Kansas State own the nation\u2019s two-longest active win streaks when leading at halftime.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Sooners due to their 7-0 ATS mark after allowing 450 total yards or more in their previous contest.<\/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":"

Kansas State Wildcats vs. Oklahoma Sooners Saturday, 10\/18\/14, 12:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread: Oklahoma -9.5 Current Betting Line: Oklahoma -7.5 Opening Total: 61.5 Current Total: 58 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas State has compiled a 16-7 SU record after 23 previous mid-season bye weeks under legendary head coach Bill Snyder, which is important to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,3266,2961,7940,2807,408],"class_list":["post-35778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bill-snyder","tag-bob-stoops","tag-jake-waters","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-oklahoma-sooners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778","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=35778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35779,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778\/revisions\/35779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}