Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Florida St Seminoles will compete in non conference play with a trip to face the Oklahoma Sooners in a college football game on Saturday afternoon.
This game will kick off from Oklahoma at 3:30PM Eastern Time and you can watch it on ABC Television.
The point spread opened up in this game with the home team Oklahoma Sooners lined as an 8 ½ point favorite.
The early money from the betting public has come on the road underdog Florida St Seminoles as the Oklahoma Sooners are now favored by 8 points.
Money line gamblers on the side of the favored Oklahoma Sooners will lay -310 odds with the road team Florida St Seminoles returning +255 to pull off the upset win without the aid of getting points.
Head coach Jimbo Fisher is in his first year as head coach for the Seminoles replacing the legend Bobby Bowden. Fisher will have 10 starters back on the offense with 6 to the defense. The team concluded play in 2009 with a 7-6 record and earned a 33-21 victory as a 3 point underdog against West Virginia in their bowl game.
Florida St opened the season posting the 59-6 victory against Samford at home.
Heisman trophy candidate senior quarterback Christian Ponder produced 12 of 14 passing for 167 yards 4 touchdowns and 1 pick. Ponder was solid last season completing 68.8% of his passes for 2717 yards 14 touchdowns and 7 picks.
Junior starting running back Jermaine Thomas returns and produced 107 yards on 8 carries and 1 touchdown last week. He broke a run for 57 yards on Samford.
Returning wide receivers Taiwan Easterling and Bert Reed combined for 9 catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns.
Florida St was a miserable defense last season allowing 30 points and 435 yards per game. Opposing teams rushed for over 200 yards per game in 2009 against them.
Samford was able to amass 300 yards on the Seminoles last week but only gained 2.0 yards per run on 38 carries.
Oklahoma has 8 starters back on offense and only 5 on the defensive side of the ball for head coach Bob Stoops who is now in his 12th year at the program.
The team finished off 2009 with an 8-5 record and defeated Stanford 31-27 as a 10 point favorite in the Sun Bowl.
Sophomore quarterback Landry Jones returns under center for the Sooners after starting during his freshman season after Sam Bradford was lost for the season against BYU.
Jones completed only 58.1% of his passes last season for 3198 yards with 26 touchdowns and 14 picks.
Oklahoma began their 2010 season posting the 31-24 harder than expected victory against Utah St Aggies from the WAC conference as a 35 point betting favorite.
Landry Jones had accuracy issues last week completing just 17 of 36 passes against a WAC team for 217 yards two touchdowns and 2 picks.
Senior running back DeMarco Murray carried the Sooners last week with 218 yards on 35 carries with 2 touchdowns.
Junior wide out Ryan Broyles had over ½ the pass receptions last week with 9 catches for 142 yards and two touchdowns last week. Broyles led Oklahoma in 2009 with 89 receptions for 1120 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Oklahoma had a stout defense in 2009 allowing just 15 points and 273 yards last season. The young Oklahoma defense allowed Utah St to gain 421 yards last week with 341 coming through the air. The Sooners did a nice job of stopping the run allowing just 2.1 yards per rush attempt.
The issue at hand is if Oklahoma can allow 341 passing yards to Utah St what will Heisman Trophy candidate Christian Ponder produce this week for the Seminoles through the air against a struggling Sooners pass defense.
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