5. Texas at Kansas
LINE Texas -9.5
PICK Kansas
I’m not entirely sure what the world is seeing in Texas that I’m not.
The betting public LOVES its Longhorns. The College Football Playoff committee would seemingly like nothing more than to cuddle with Texas and put it to bed in a warm cozy blanket – at least before last week.
Everyone saw the Alabama game, and everyone saw the first few minutes of the blowout over Oklahoma. It’s a good team and it puts out a fine product, but did it show much of anything in the road loss to Oklahoma State? Yeah the O was good, but whatever.
Did it shock the world with that win at Kansas State? Great win, but it was by seven. After that the offense was held to a dead stop at TCU in a 17-10 loss.
As I’m writing this it’s a rainy-but-not-bad 55 degrees in Austin, Texas. It’s 17 degrees in Lawrence, Kansas and it’s supposed to be around 25 and very, very windy by game time.
Texas is bowl eligible. Does this strike you as a badass team that’s going to come out snorting fire to maybe have a shot at a better bowl?
It’s the final home game of the year for the Jayhawks, they’re 4-1 in Lawrence, and the one loss was to TCU by seven.
Maybe Texas rises up and out-talents the team on the other side. Maybe it really does want payback after last year’s embarrassing shootout loss.
It should win, but 9.5 is still too much.