2018 odds spread texas vs oklahoma state

It was not a matter of keeping the powder dry before the Red River Rivalry from eight yards out, Texas should be able to score against Kansas using nothing but the most pedestrian part of the playbook. Those are moments the Longhorns need to cross the goal line. Perhaps most dramatically, Texas kicked field goals on back-to-back possessions early against Kansas last week, drives that each reached first-and-goal on the 8-yard line. Alabama scored touchdowns on the possessions before and after that interception its offense was moving until it was suddenly trailing by two possessions. Remove that fourth-quarter tally that gave Texas an 11-point lead, and life may have been exceedingly stressful for the Longhorns. That was one of those “three more touchdowns,” a one-play, 5-yard touchdown drive. It very well may have against Alabama - when Texas had seven quality drives, ending in one big-play touchdown, three more touchdowns and three field goal attempts - if the Tide had not gifted them a 5-yard field. Leaving those kinds of points on the field will cost the Longhorns against strong competition. 108 in the country in red-zone touchdown conversions, crossing the goal line on just 11 of 21 trips inside the 20. On 24 sustained, non-garbage time drives this season, they have managed only 11 touchdowns. The Longhorns have struggled where offensive success matters most on the field. Can Texas spring enough big-play touchdowns to avoid worrying about converting in the red zone?

Mistakes are made.īut the two items to watch in the Cotton Bowl - the actual Cotton Bowl, mind you, not the glass behemoth known as AT&T Stadium - are very much interconnected. Coaches get their egos challenged and react irrationally. These are 18- to 23-year-olds in stressful environments. No college football game is so simple as to be boiled down to one thing to watch. Here are our free college football picks and predictions for Oklahoma vs Texas on Saturday, October 7, with kickoff set for 12:00 ET. What’s the best bet at the Texas State Fair?

That makes this a particularly difficult handicap, not to mention the college football odds bouncing around an awkward area of -5 to -6.

While Texas may have the most impressive win of the season, beating Alabama by double digits in Tuscaloosa, Oklahoma hasn’t played any competition worth noting.

The final Big 12 rendition of the Red River Rivalry will feature two Top-15 teams, the Texas Longhorns meeting the Oklahoma Sooners in what should be a Big 12 championship game preview.

2018 odds spread texas vs oklahoma state