{"id":29543,"date":"2010-11-17T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T03:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=29543"},"modified":"2010-11-17T22:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T03:54:04","slug":"week-12-cfb-betting-preview-beted-171110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sportsbooks\/week-12-cfb-betting-preview-beted-171110\/","title":{"rendered":"betED: Week 12 CFB Sportsbook Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Longhorns, Yellow Jackets fighting for bowl lives<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The NCAA College Football regular season is officially in the stretch drive and there are a number of teams fighting not just for a spot in a Bowl Championship Series Bowl game, but in any bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>Among those teams struggling for postseason life are the Texas Longhorns, who weren\u2019t just in a BCS bowl game last season, they were in the BCS Championship Game, losing 37-21 to the Alabama Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n<p>Texas (4-6 SU, 2-8 ATS) definitely will not be defending its Big 12 conference title and will be hard-pressed to get into the bowl season, as NCAA rules prohibit any team with a sub-.500 record from playing in a bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns need a win over the Florida Atlantic Owls on Saturday, and will have to then turn around and beat the No. 18 Texas A&amp;M Aggies the following week.<\/p>\n<p>Texas is a 21-point favorite in\u00a0<a href=\"\/ncaaf\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NCAAF Lines<\/span><\/a> at betED.com.<\/p>\n<p>Texas hasn\u2019t missed playing a bowl game since the 1997 season.<\/p>\n<p>Another 2009 conference champion in danger of not playing in late December or early January are the defending ACC champion Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Tech is in a slightly better position to qualify for a bowl game at 5-5 SU (3-4 ATS).<\/p>\n<p>The Yellow Jackets host the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday, with Georgia Tech a 12-point favorite in\u00a0<a href=\"\/ncaaf\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NCAA Football Odds<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other teams on the bowl bubble are the Georgia Bulldogs, Oregon State Beavers, and Pittsburgh Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a href=\"\/ncaaf\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NCAAF Odds<\/span><\/a> for all the Week 12 matchups at betED.com.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/js.frontlinegamingpartners.com\/javascript.php?prefix=KvW4Zr-dEDdiHMh1Fo8vcmNd7ZgqdRLk&amp;media=45&amp;campaign=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas hasn\u2019t missed playing a bowl game since the 1997 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":25139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[159,1376,312,313,66508,4453],"class_list":["post-29543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sportsbooks","tag-beted","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-betting","tag-sportsbooks","tag-week-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29545,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543\/revisions\/29545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}