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Texas at Missouri Odds

Written October 23, 2009 by Kyle Hunter

The Texas Longhorns are coming off a hard fought victory at the Cotton Bowl over their rival the Oklahoma Sooners. This week they don’t get any real rest as they head to Missouri to take on a Tigers team that will be aiming to knock off the #3 team in the country. Expect Texas to receive Missouri’s best effort in this game, especially with the night game and the raucous home crowd.

Colt McCoy is a little banged up and the Texas Longhorns haven’t played their best football, but they are 6-0. McCoy has a bit of a thumb injury that is definitely hampering him some, but the Longhorns haven’t stopped winning. McCoy has a great completion percentage of 70%, but has thrown 7 interceptions already this season. The Texas offense has been aided greatly by a surprisingly successful rushing attack. Last weekend Texas rushed for 142 yards against a stout Oklahoma defense. The Longhorns have plenty of fresh and talented young running backs to throw at opposing defenses. Jordan Shipley is very instrumental in the team’s success, both as a receiver and a punt returner. The Texas defense has been nothing short of amazing against the run this season, allowing a ridiculously low 36 yards per game on the ground. Last weekend Oklahoma, who has two very talented running backs, was held to negative yards rushing the football. The defense has been the real positive surprise. Get serious about college football betting with a $500 match bonus from BetUS.

Blaine Gabbert and the Missouri Tigers got off to a tremendous start to the season, but things have turned south in their last two games. Gabbert is nursing an ankle injury that is clearly affecting his play and the Tigers have lost two straight. Gabbert started the season with 11 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, but has now thrown 5 interceptions and just one touchdown in the last two games. Derrick Washington has done a pretty good job at the running back spot, keeping other teams defenses honest. Danario Alexander is the best of a solid wide receiving corps that can get open against most teams. The defense has been fairly good this year, but they have let the team down on a couple occasions when they badly needed a stop. Missouri has a great defensive leader in Sean Witherspoon.

The Missouri Tigers will be playing in front of the home faithful Saturday night, but they are still 12 point underdogs to the #3 team in the country according to our latest college football odds. The over/under for the game is set at 50.5 points. The under is 6-1 in the Tigers last 7 games and the under is 4-1 in the Longhorns last 5 games.

With Blaine Gabbert injured and trying to play through it the Tigers are definitely suffering as his great abilities are diminished by quite a bit. The running game won’t be able to carry the load against this Texas defense, so they’ll have to be able to throw the ball. Missouri’s offensive line will have their hands full in this one. Texas will likely be able to throw and run the ball fairly effectively, though Colt McCoy will continue to struggle a bit with his injury. The crowd will likely help the Tigers stay in it for a while, but in the end I think the #3 Longhorns cover in this one.

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