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Missouri vs. Oklahoma Football Betting Odds & Spread

Written December 2, 2008 by Jason Lowry

After a number of tie breakers were used, the team playing in the Big 12 Championship from the South division is the Oklahoma Sooners, who edged out the Texas Longhorns and Texas Tech Red Raiders to take on the Missouri Tigers for the automatic bid to a BCS bowl game, and for the Sooners a shot at the BCS National Championship. The Sooners finished off their season at 11-1 thanks to a 61-41 win over Oklahoma State on the road, while Missouri had a slip in their final game, as they fell 40-37 at home to rival Kansas. If you are looking to do some NCAA football betting this weekend, the oddsmakers have Oklahoma coming in 17 point favorites over Missouri at Sportsbook.com

The Missouri Tigers come into this one with the chance of really screwing things up for the BCS this season, as a Missouri win, not only knocks Oklahoma out of the BCS, but would only allow Texas or Texas Tech to join them, thanks to only two teams being able to go to the BCS from one conference. The Tigers did a good job of climbing from an early 19-10 deficit, but just didn’t have enough to finish off the Jayhawks. Chase Daniels threw for 288 yards and 4 touchdowns, but did have to costly interceptions. Daniels was also the Tigers leading rusher in this one, with 103 yards on 9 carries. Now the Tigers have the offensive fire power to keep up with Oklahoma, but the main problem comes on the defensive side of things.

Now if the Missouri defense can find someway to slow down the Sooners in this one, the Tigers could payback the Sooners for the loss that likely knocked them out of the Championship game last year in the Big 12 Championship. Now they can’t play like they did against Kansas last week, as the Jayhawks Todd Reesing out did Daniels with 375 yards and 4 touchdown passes of his own. Now Oklahoma has put up nearly 60 points a game since its loss to Texas, so the Tigers defense has to not only play the game of its life, but likely needs a lot of help from the Sooners. Bet Missouri +17 at Sportsbook.com

Now there are a lot of Longhorn fans that feel they should be playing in this game this week, but its hard to argue with the way Oklahoma has played to finish the season, as they have put 60 plus points up against two highly ranked teams the last couple weeks. Against the Cowboys last week Sam Bradford increased his chances of winning the Heisman trophy this season, as he thew for 270 yards and 4 scores, as the Sooners used 24 fourth quarter points to beat Oklahoma State by 20. The Sooners also got solid games from Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray, as the running back duo combined for 171 yards and 3 Sooner touchdowns. Now it doesn’t look like anyone can stop these guys, and we would be shocked if Missouri can keep this one close.

Now as good as the Sooners are playing on offense, they have the talent to shutdown teams on defense when needed, as they showed all game against the Red Raiders two weeks ago, and last week when they shut down the Cowboys when needed late in the game. Now the Sooners did give up 41 points and let the Cowboys stick around in this one, so there is a chance Daniels and the Tigers get things rolling and make this one a game, but with a shot at another National Championship at stake, we think the Sooners wil prevail, but this one might be a little closer than the experts are thinking. Bet Oklahoma -17 at Sportsbook.com

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