Dec 03 ’16, 12:30 PM
Oklahoma State Cowboys vs Oklahoma Sooners
Play on: UNDER 77 -110
Totals Expert Ben Burns takes a look at the Sooners/Cowboys game. More Daily Expert Free Picks.
With all due respect to the offenses, which are obviously both very capable, this number is awfully high. To give some perspective, last season’s meeting had an O/U line of 62.5. The previous year, the O/U line for a game between these teams had an O/U line of 57.5. Granted, both those lines turned out to be too low, as each game finished above the total.
The Cowboys limited TCU to a mere six points last time out, a dominant defensive effort. The Sooners weren’t as stingy but weren’t terrible defensively either; they held WVU to 28 points. Not bad considering that the Mountaineers came in averaging 32.6 ppg and 506.8 ypg at home.
Even including the 12/6/14 meeting between these teams here, which produced 71 points, the Sooners have seen the “under” go 16-4 their last 20 games played in the month of December. A look at some more recent history reveals that the Cowboys were underdogs of greater than a field goal three times this season. All three of those games (at TCU, vs. WVU and at Baylor) fell below the number by double-digits. Consider the Under.
