Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The Oklahoma St Cowboys will pay a visit in Big 12 conference action to the Iowa St Cyclones in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time at Iowa St is scheduled for 3:30PM Eastern Time with regional television coverage provided by ABC. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Oklahoma St Cowboys opened as a 7-½ point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the home underdog Iowa St Cyclones, as the Oklahoma St Cowboys are currently a 7-point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 54 for the college bettors to play into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Oklahoma St Cowboys at –295 with the home underdog Iowa St Cyclones bringing back +245 to pull out the straight up win with no points on their side.
When these two Big 12 conference foes met last year it was Oklahoma St pounding Iowa St 59-17. Oklahoma St rushed for 263 yards and passed for another 419 for an incredible 682 yard performance on the Cyclones defense. Oklahoma St looks to rebound after being mauled last week at home to Texas 41-14. Texas dominated the Cowboys and the Longhorns were aided by 5 Oklahoma St turnovers in the game. Oklahoma St’s vaunted passing game was grounded as the team could only generate 143 passing yards in their loss. Oklahoma St is 2-0 on the road this season with a non-point spread covering win at Texas A&M and a win and cover 34-7 at Baylor. Cowboys starting quarterback Zac Robinson is looking to bounce back from a 4 interception performance last week against Texas. Robinson has hit on 63% of his passes this season with 13 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. On the ground the Cowboys are led by running back Keith Toston who has averaged 5.2 yards a carry on the season in 130 rushing attempts. Defensively the Cowboys have held opponents to just an average of 99 yards per game on the ground. The team only allows and average of 22.6 points per game. Iowa St is 5-4 on the season and just 1 win away from becoming bowl eligible. They are winners of 2 of their past 3 games but are coming off a 35-10 loss at Texas A&M. The week prior they pulled off a huge upset victory by beating Nebraska at Lincoln 97 as the team benefited from 8 Cornhuskers turnovers. The Cyclones non-conference victories were against very soft competition. They faced a good passing offense in Kansas and were beaten 41-36. Junior quarterback Austen Arnaud may return to the field this week. The Cyclones starting quarterback has hit on just 56% of his passes for 9 touchdowns and 5 interceptions on the season. Lead running back Alexander Robinson has carried the ball 140 times on the season for an impressive 5.4 yards per carry average. Iowa St is near the bottom on defense ranking 11th in the Big 12 conference giving up 396 yards per game. Their passing defense is weak allowing 7.2 yards per pass attempt and 18 touchdown passes allowed to their opponents. This is an area where Oklahoma St could exploit the Cyclones.
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CFB Trend: Oklahoma St Cowboys are 10-3 to the under in their past 13 road games
The Wagerline consensus has 75.9% of the CFB bettors on Oklahoma St -7
The Wagerline consensus has 63.6% of the CFB bettors playing over 54
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