Saturday, February 4th, 2012
The Missouri Tigers will hit the highway to face the Colorado Buffaloes in a Big 12 conference college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time is set for 1:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by FSN. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the Missouri Tigers opened as a 3-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the favorite, as the Missouri Tigers are currently a 4-point favorite. The over under is set at 46 ½ for the college football bettors to play into. College football money line bettors can make a play on the favored Missouri Tigers at –200 with the home underdog Colorado Buffaloes returning + 175 to win straight up without the point spread a factor in the money line bet.
In their meeting last season the Missouri Tigers embarrassed Colorado beating them 58-0. Missouri enters this game loser of three straight Big 12 conference games and struggling offensively. The Tigers have only put up 36 points over their three game losing streak. First year starting quarterback Blaine Gabbert is coming off a poor performance hitting on just 8 of 16 for 84 yards in defeat last week. Gabbert during the teams three game losing streak has been inaccurate hitting on less than half of his passes thrown with 2 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. The sophomore quarterback Gabbert is sporting a sore ankle but has practiced this week. Missouri is struggling in the ground game with just 3.4 yards per play average. Missouri is the 6th ranked defense in the Big 12 allowing 345 yards per game and 4.8 yards per play against average. It’s another disappointing season for Colorado head coach Dan Hawkins. The beleaguered head coach proclaimed a 10-win season in the summer and the team is sitting at 2-5 on the season. Their defense has failed allowing opponents 28 points a game. Offensively the team has been inept with just 301 offensive yards a game and a 22-point per game average. Inaccurate quarterback Cody Hawkins has hit the bench and now under center is sophomore quarterback Tyler Hansen. With Hansen the starting quarterback the team defeated Kansas 34-30 at home and then last week suffered a 20-6 loss. Hansen was just 7 of 14 for 89 yards and no touchdowns in Hansen’s first road start. Colorado is awful on the ground with just 2.7 yards per carry average. Colorado is last in the Big 12 allowing opponents 5.8 yards per play against average on their defense.
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CFB Trend: Missouri Tigers are 6-0 to the Under this season
The Wagerline consensus has 65.5% of the CFB bettors on Missouri -4
The Wagerline consensus has 58.5% of the CFB bettors playing over 46 1/2
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