Colorado vs Texas Football Betting Odds

Written October 9, 2009 by Kyle Hunter

The Colorado Buffaloes and the Texas Longhorns are programs that have gone in separate paths in the past few years, with Texas being a top program and Colorado turning into a Big 12 cellar dweller. It wasn’t that many years ago that Colorado was a contender in the Big 12 on an annual basis, but things have fallen quite quickly there. In Austin Mack Brown was often thought of as a coach that got great talent but never went anywhere with the team, but Vince Young and the BCS championship team changed those thoughts. If you plan to do any college football betting this year you should take advantage of the $500 match bonus at BetUS.

This year the Colorado Buffaloes have been very bad. Dan Hawkins has tried to come in and rebuild the program, but to this point it isn’t working. The low point of the season thus far was probably the 54-38 thrashing at the hands of Toledo in a nationally televised game. Colorado rebounded to win 24-0 over Wyoming, but was then outplayed quite badly by West Virginia and the Buffaloes come to Austin with a 1-3 mark overall. Cody Hawkins appeared to be a future star in a fairly successful freshman season two years ago, but he hasn’t grown into the efficient quarterback many thought he would be. Hawkins has a completion percentage of just 52% this year and has thrown 7 interceptions in 4 games. In fairness to Cody Hawkins, there is no running game to speak of at Colorado, which makes defenses tee off and be prepared for the pass. The defense has been atrocious against the run and they aren’t exactly strong against the pass either.

The Texas Longhorns started the season off a little slower than most people might have expected. Their game at Wyoming was very close until the third quarter and they also struggled to put away Texas Tech, but last week they rolled up 64 points in a trouncing of UTEP. Colt McCoy’s numbers aren’t as impressive as a year ago, but he seems to be finding his mark in the last couple of games. All in all, while Texas hasn’t looked terrific yet they are undefeated. Most people believe this team can definitely put together a full game and compete with anyone in the country once they mature and get all systems working correctly. Texas has a great wide receiver and punt returner in Jordan Shipley. The Longhorns also have two talented tailbacks that have both had nice success running the ball. The defense misses Brian Orakpo and the pressure he could put on a quarterback, but they have been amazing against the running and pretty good against the pass as well.

The Longhorns are favored by 32.5 points in this game according to the latest NCAA football lines. The posted total for the game is set at 62 points. The trends show that Colorado is 0-7 against the spread in their last 7 against Texas. The over is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings between these two teams.

Texas is finally starting to hit stride and I don’t see any reason to think that Colorado will be able to stop them. The Buffaloes will likely get behind quickly and be forced to throw the ball every down and make themselves very predictable. Though the number is huge I think Texas will probably cover the spread in this one.

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