The Oklahoma State Cowboys (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) will get their final opportunity to wow the 2011 NCAA football picks voters when they take the field against the Oklahoma Sooners (9-2, 6-2 Big 12) on Saturday at 8:00pm ET on ABC in this year?s installment of the Bedlam rivalry. The Cowboys can finish the regular season with one loss and ranked no lower than third with a win over the Sooners, but a blowout win combined by an LSU blowout loss, could perhaps confuse this year?s BCS Title Game scenarios even more. The Cowboys were rolling right along before a crucial loss all but knocked them out of National Title contention. Yes, Alabama also has only one loss, but their loss came to the best team in the country. Oklahoma State?s only loss was a huge NCAA football odds upset at the hands of the Iowa State Cyclones in a game that saw OSU dominate the betting lines as -27.5 point favorites.
The Cowboys may have been playing with heavy hearts in that game, as the university had just lost their women?s basketball Head Coach and Assistant Coach in a tragic plane crash just days after the Cowboys held a service to honor the 10-year anniversary of another fatal plane crash that took the lives of some of the members of the men?s basketball program. It almost sounds made-up, but nothing about these tragedies s unreal. Quarterback Brandon Weeden and wide-out Justin Blackmon will try to give their home fans one last show this season and when they take the field against the Sooners, they will be doing so as 3.5 point NCAA football predictions favorites at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has featured one of the nation's most powerful offenses this season, but on Saturday against Oklahoma State, they will be without leading rusher, Dominique Whaley, and leading wide receiver, Ryan Broyles. Oklahoma State has lost the last seven games in this Bedlam rivalry series, and now would be a good time for Head Coach Mike Gundy to secure his first win over a depleted Sooners squad. They must fight tooth and nail however, because Bob Stoops has a system in place that does not rely on any single player, but on the team as a whole. The Cowboys have not taken the field since their November 18th loss to Iowa State so he has to make sure that his team comes out ready to play because if they are slow to come out of the gates, then Oklahoma will pull away before the Cowboys figure out what hit them.
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NCAA Football Odds at Bodog Sportsbook
Oklahoma Sooners +3.5, Over 71 (-105), Money Lines +135
Oklahoma State Cowboys -3.5, Under 71 (-115), Money Lines -155
Submitted by Michael Davis on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:11am.
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