NCAA Football Gambling – Texas versus Rice

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NCAA football gambling competition on Saturday contains what appears to be a mismatch for oddsmakers to bet on NCAA football with as Texas faces Rice. NCAA football gambling fans will have their choice of a traditional power and perennial national title contender against a weak non-BCS commodity to bet on NCAA football with.



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

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

With that being said, the Longhorns will present 6 new starters on an offense which averaged over 40 points per competition the prior two years. The defense returns 7 starters for highly regarded coordinator and head coach in waiting Will Muschamp.

As they finished 2-10 after a 10-3 mark in 2008, Rice suffered a sizeable NCAA gambling drop-off last year. That continued a feast or famine type of run by 4th year coach David Bailiff who started his career with a 3-9 mark after taking command for a squad that went 7-6.

If the trend continues this means that Rice ought to be back up in 2010 and with 10 starters coming back on both sides of the line that is the expectation.

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

When it comes to the NCAA football odds, head coach Mack Brown refuses to say that Texas is in a rebuilding or transition year.

“I don’t like that word,” Brown explained. “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 matchup in 2008 and has a NCAA football betting mark of just 10-22 versus the spread in non conference action since 2002.


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