The Big 12 is often criticized for featuring high-scoring teams without playing much defense. Some of that is apparently justified, as the conference’s two best teams—the TCU Horned Frogs and the Baylor Bears—were left out of the College Football Playoff field last year in favor of the eventual national champion Ohio State Buckeyes. This season, No. 2 TCU (5-0) and No. 3 Baylor (4-0) are both on a mission to do whatever it takes to ensure they stay among the top four teams in the country until the very end. That means not only winning but winning impressively until they meet each other on November 27. Winning impressively translates to running up the score whenever possible and often beating expectations set by oddsmakers in covering the spread. The Horned Frogs have a tough matchup with the Kansas State Wildcats (3-1) on Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan. However, this type of game will bring out the best in TCU this time of year, as the team is 5-0 against the spread in its past five October games, according to the OddsShark College Football Database. The Wildcats fell to the Horned Frogs 41-20 on the road last season as 6.5-point underdogs and will lose again by double digits here. The Bears are enormous 44-point road favorites visiting the Kansas Jayhawks (0-4), according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. The spread will not matter much in this game because Kansas is so bad and will have trouble scoring two touchdowns. …
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