2. Kansas State at Kansas
LINE Kansas State -24
ATS PICK Kansas State
I could bore you with a bunch of analysis, stats, and actual research hoo-ha, or I could just cut to the chase.
It’s Kansas, it’s football, there’s a spread, and that means bad things are about to happen.
Before America got punked by Oklahoma’s performance against the Jayhawks, KU was 0-6 on the year against the spread and winless against it going back almost two years.
After the spell was broken, the assumption was that everything was about to go right back to normal, and it sure did.
Oklahoma State -29.5. Oklahoma State 55, Kansas 3.
As good as the Jayhawks looked and played against OU, that’s how miserable they were against the Cowboys with 44 passing yards, three interceptions, six first downs from the offense – and those were the positives.
Kansas State hasn’t been great – it lost three straight before slipping by Texas Tech and getting Gary Patterson sacked in a 31-12 win over TCU – but this isn’t about Kansas State.
This isn’t about Kansas.
This is about believing in something bigger than yourself.
(Really, Kansas State should get on a roll early and fight through a mid-game surge for a win it really, really needs to have.)
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