{"id":9102,"date":"2010-10-15T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T21:59:13","slug":"oklahoma-state-cowboys-at-texas-tech-red-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/oklahoma-state-cowboys-at-texas-tech-red-raiders-9102\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Picks: Oklahoma State at Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma State Cowboys at Texas Tech Red Raiders
\nSaturday, 10\/16\/10, 3:30 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0\u00a0Oklahoma State -1
\nCurrent Betting Line: \u00a0Texas Tech -3
\nOpening Total: \u00a071
\nCurrent Total: \u00a069
\nCurrent Moneyline: \u00a0Texas Tech -150 \/ Oklahoma St +130<\/strong><\/p>\n

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QB Taylor Potts looks to continue Tech's dominance in series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma State returns to Big 12 Conference play and heads to Lubbock, Texas to tackle the Red Raiders.\u00a0 The Cowboys are 5-0 for the second time in three years, averaging 52.6 points and ranking fourth in the nation with 526.2 yards of total offense per game.\u00a0 \u201cI like where our football team is right now,\u201d head coach Mike Gundy said.\u00a0 \u201cThey have played together as a group.\u00a0 We have had a number of young players that have gotten better over the past five weeks.\u201d\u00a0 Gundy\u2019s squad is one of just 13 unbeaten teams and will look to end a nine-game losing streak at Texas Tech that dates back to 1944.\u00a0 Oklahoma State is 7-1 ATS in October and 9-1 ATS in weeks five through nine of the season.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys potent attack is led by quarterback Brandon Weeden, who went 29-of-47 for 351 yards and five touchdowns in the 54-28 victory over Louisiana-Lafayette last week.\u00a0 He has thrown for 1,610 yards and a conference-leading 18 touchdowns this year, as the team ranks second nationally in passing.\u00a0 Oklahoma State knows that the level of competition is about to be raised in hosting Nebraska next week at home.\u00a0 \u201cNot that the first five weren\u2019t big, but yeah, they\u2019re going to get bigger,\u201d Weeden said.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re going to get tougher.\u201d\u00a0 The Cowboys overcame a 10-7 halftime deficit for an eventual 24-17 victory in Stillwater last year, marking the second time since 1998 that neither team reached the 30-point mark in the series.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech is set to play its only home game of October in welcoming in the 18th-ranked Cowboys and coming off an exciting 45-38 win over Baylor last week.\u00a0 The Red Raiders passed for 462 yards and rushed for 173 yards in the victory and received praise from their first-year head coach.\u00a0 \u201cI told the players on Monday in our team meeting that one thing I noticed offensively was we looked a lot more consistent and a lot more physical,\u201d Tuberville said.\u00a0 \u201cWe were very good on third down and that was the difference in the game.\u201d\u00a0 It was a surprising effort mainly because the rushing attack averaged just 85.3 yards in the first four games.\u00a0 The team is a fantastic 49-28 ATS in October over the last 77 chances.<\/p>\n

The Red Raiders offense still goes through its aerial attack and is led by senior quarterback Taylor Potts.\u00a0 He went 42 of 59 for 462 yards and four touchdowns last week in helping the program avoid its first 0-3 start in Big 12 play.\u00a0 Texas Tech has a good chance of picking up its second conference victory due to a 12-2-3 all-time mark against Oklahoma State in Lubbock.\u00a0 Since 2002, the series has been dominated by the home team, as Texas Tech is 4-0 at Jones AT&T Stadium and the Cowboys are 4-0 at Boone Pickens Stadium.\u00a0 In order to knock off Saturday\u2019s foe, the defense must improve upon its numbers, allowing 114 points and an average of 422.7 yards total offense in its first three conference games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will definitely take note that the Cowboys are 0-6 in their last six games as an underdog and the home team is 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings.\u00a0 Texas Tech is difficult to back with a 0-4 ATS mark following an ATS win.\u00a0 With conflicting trends like this we have to side with what team we feel like has the most value and at +3.5 the Cowboys look like a decent play this Saturday.\u00a0 We do have 7 stronger picks lined up for our members and you can get those on the Saturday college football picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma State Cowboys at Texas Tech Red Raiders Saturday, 10\/16\/10, 3:30 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0\u00a0Oklahoma State -1 Current Betting Line: \u00a0Texas Tech -3 Opening Total: \u00a071 Current Total: \u00a069 Current Moneyline: \u00a0Texas Tech -150 \/ Oklahoma St +130 Oklahoma State returns to Big 12 Conference play and heads to Lubbock, Texas to tackle the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,3187,2256,1141,3379,440],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-brandon-weeden","tag-mike-gundy","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-taylor-potts","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","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=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}