College Football Betting: Texas Tech vs OSU

Saturday, November 14 - 8 PM ET

BetUS NCAA College Football Betting Odds: OKLAHOMA ST. -4, Total 60

Texas Tech has won four of its last five games, with a 5-3 ATS record in the college football betting, and has scored a lot of points in the process. Last week they got 253 passing yards out of Taylor Potts and Seth Doege and broke the game open with 28 fourth-quarter points. The explosion came behind Potts, who started out the season as the Red Raiders' starting signal-caller but was benched. It is pretty clear that the Red Raiders can move the football with whoever goes into the game. That is the nature of the system installed by Mike Leach. The question becomes, can they do enough? And, what can Oklahoma State do to counter it?

Here are some of the NCAA trends as they relate to this matchup:

• TT has won four of its last five games SU
• TT has won six of its last nine road games SU
• OSU has won six of its last seven games SU
• OSU has won 11 of its last 15 home games SU

Also....

• TT has won and covered nine of the last 13 meetings
• OSU has won four of the last five meetings SU as the home team
  

In some parts of the Big 12, the way to counter something isn't to defend it, but outscore it. In this regard, OSU may be in better position than it was a couple of weeks ago. Zac Robinson, we already know, is a heck of a quarterback. College football fans know that this season his stats aren't what they were in 2008 (65%, 14 TD's) but he has shown a lot of leadership because this Cowboy team, which started out with high hopes and a Top 10 ranking after beating Georgia, has been injury-depleted. Dez Bryant, who may have been the best wide receiver in the country, was hurt, then ruled ineligible. Kendall Hunter has missed five games with an injury. Now he's back, though, and he joins Keith Toston, who gained 882 yards on the ground in his absence.

That's not a bad 1-2 punch, certainly better than Texas tech has to offer. Throw in the fact that Oklahoma State defends the run better (ranked ninth nationally), defends the pass better (11 INT's), puts together a superior protection package (just four sacks allowed) to negate what hard-charging Texas Tech defensive end Brandon Sharpe can do, AND want revenge for last year's shameful 56-20 loss, and we'll move with the Cowboys, the four-point favorite in the BetUS NCAA online sports gambling.

JAY'S PLAY: OKLAHOMA STATE -4 ****
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