Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State Betting Preview 11/12/16

Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State Betting Preview

Texas Tech has lost four of their last five games and in all of the losses gave up over 40 points. In all five of their losses, that has been the story as the defense has given up an average of 54.2 points. It’s hard to believe the huge difference in performance between the offense and defense as their offense has the country’s top quarterback in Patrick Mahomes and is the fourth ranked scoring offense averaging over 46 points a game. Their porous defense is ranked 124th in points allowed giving up 42 a game and have actually given up over 65 points in two games.

The Cowboys are led by a pretty good quarterback of their own named Mason Rudolph who is ranked 7th in the nation. He leads a balanced offense that can run and pass while scoring over 40 points a game on average. In their current five game winning streak their defense did bend but didn’t break as four of their opponents scored 31 points or less.

The oddsmakers have the Cowboys as a 12.5 point favorite and a total sitting high at 89.5. According to Covers.com Consensus Analysis 60% like the Cowboys at home and are backing them while 59% believe that sky high total will be too hard to reach and are behind the under.

The Cowboys have won the last six meetings between these schools by double digits.

Previous Meetings

10/31/15: Oklahoma St 70 @ Texas Tech 53
09/25/14: Texas Tech 35 @ Oklahoma St 45
11/02/13: Oklahoma St 52 @ Texas Tech 34

Trends

• The over is 4-0 in their last four meetings.
• The road team has covered the spread in five of the last six meetings
• Texas Tech has failed to cover the spread in six of their last seven meetings

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