Auburn vs. Kansas State betting trends and pick
Auburn just keeps producing winning bets after winning bets, but they have a tougher task this week against Kansas State (7:30 p.m. ET Thursday, ESPN).
The Auburn Tigers are 11-0 straight up and 9-2 against the spread in their last 11 games as the betting favorite. Auburn will be an 8.5-point road favorite this Thursday night visiting the Kansas State Wildcats.
Kansas State is a tough team to play against at home, and as such rarely finds itself in the role of home underdog. But going up against a powerhouse team like Auburn, Kansas State may be outmatched. The Tigers look like a solid pick at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Odds Shark computer prediction: 46-34 Auburn
Auburn has been a money-printing factory for college football bettors over the last calendar year. The Tigers are 13-0 ATS over their last 13 games and 11-2 SU over that stretch, including four outright upsets as an underdog. While elite teams like Alabama and Florida State have looked rusty at the start of the 2014 season, Auburn picked up where it left off last season, with big wins and covers over Arkansas and San Jose State to start the season.
Kansas State is 2-0 SU and 0-2 ATS through its first two games of the season. As a 12.5-point road favorite at Iowa State, Kansas State needed a fourth quarter comeback to escape with a 32-28 win. The Wildcats are breaking in a handful of new starters on defense, and the 28 points surrendered to Iowa State and the 16 allowed to Stephen F. Austin are cause for concern heading into a matchup with an offensive juggernaut like Auburn.
The total has gone OVER in six of Auburn’s last seven games as the favorite, according to the OddsShark College Football Database, and in each of Kansas State’s last three games at home. The Tigers’ propensity to play fast-paced games and Kansas State’s early shakiness on defense point to another potentially high-scoring game this Thursday.
Kansas State has been a consistently strong program under head coach Bill Snyder and is 3-0 ATS in its last three games as an underdog. But Auburn has become an elite program under head coach Gus Malzahn and has shown no signs of slowing down on offense.
