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College football wagering action on Saturday contains what seems to be a mismatch for handicappers to bet on college football with as Texas competes with Rice. College football wagering fanatics will have their choice of a traditional ability and perennial national championship contender against a vulnerable non-BCS asset to bet on college football with.



With kickoff on ESPN at 3:35 PM Eastern, Texas opened at the online sportsbook as a 28.5-point favorite. The game will be performed at Reliant Stadium in Houston, home of the NFL’s Houston Texans.

Texas will have a considerable new look in sports gambling odds as 4-year starting quarterback Colt McCoy is gone and will be replaced by sophomore Garrett Gilbert, who had to take the place of McCoy after he went down to injury in the BCS Championship Game loss to Alabama. Gilbert is reported to have a stronger arm than McCoy and no drop-off is supposed.

That being said, the Longhorns will present 6 new starters on an offense which averaged over 40 points per game the previous 2 years. The defense brings back 7 starters for very revered coordinator and head coach in waiting Will Muschamp.

Rice sustained a substantial NCAA wagering drop-off last year as they ended 2-10 after a 10-3 mark in 2008. That continued a feast or famine kind of run by 4th year coach David Bailiff who commenced his career with a 3-9 mark after taking command for a team that went 7-6.

If the trend proceeds this means that Rice should be back up in 2010 and with 10 starters returning on both sides of the line that is the expectation.

As he passed for 162 yards and 2 touchdowns in the 2nd half and got the Horns within 3 points before the Crimson Tide put the game away, Gilbert recovered after a unstable start in last year’s 37-21 loss to Alabama. As the program has won at least 10 matches per year for 9 straight seasons, there will be lots of strain on Gilbert.

Head coach Mack Brown refuses to claim that Texas is in a rebuilding or transition year with the college football prospects.

“I don’t like that word,” said Brown. “Because it gives the kids and the coaches an excuse not to be good.” Rice was clobbered by Texas 52-10 as 29-point longshots in their last competition in 2008 and has a college football betting mark of only 10-22 against the spread in non conference action since 2002.


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