The No. 24 Oklahoma State Cowboys are a perfect 5-0 straight up and against the spread in their last five games against the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Oklahoma State hosts the Red Raiders in one of three games scheduled for this Thursday night. To make matters worse for Texas Tech, the Red Raiders are 2-5 SU and ATS in their last seven games against Big 12 foes. Oklahoma State is now a 14.5-point favorite at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
College football opening lines, Week 5: UCLA, Oklahoma State Thursday favorites
Oklahoma State lays more than two TDS against Texas Tech as college football odds open this week.
John Weast
The marquee matchup on Thursday is the No. 15 Arizona State Sun Devils vs. the No. 11 UCLA Bruins. Arizona State is 4-0 SU and ATS in its last four games coming off of a bye week. The OVER is 4-0 in the last four games between these two Pac-12 rivals. With Brett Hundley participating in practice this week, UCLA opened as a 3-point road favorite.
Opening lines as aggregated by OddsShark.com:
| Appalachian State at Georgia Southern | -17 |
| Texas Tech at Oklahoma State | -14 |
| UCLA at Arizona State | 3 |
| Middle Tennessee at Old Dominion | 0 |
| Fresno State at New Mexico | 3 |
| TCU at Southern Methodist | 31 |
| UTEP at Kansas State | -30 |
| Tulane at Rutgers | -12 |
| Northwestern at Penn State | -9 |
| Wyoming at Michigan State | -32 |
| South Florida at Wisconsin | -32 |
| Iowa at Purdue | 13.5 |
| Tennessee at Georgia | -18 |
| Vanderbilt at Kentucky | -14 |
| Colorado State at Boston College | -3 |
| Western Michigan at Virginia Tech | -28 |
| Army at Yale | |
| Maryland at Indiana | -3 |
| Akron at Pittsburgh | -18 |
| Eastern Illinois at Ohio | |
| Bowling Green at Massachusetts | 12 |
| Miami (Ohio) at Buffalo | -6.5 |
| Arkansas at Texas A&M | -13 |
| Minnesota at Michigan | -9.5 |
| Wake Forest at Louisville | -21 |
| Florida International at UAB | -14 |
| Kent State at Virginia | -21 |
| Western Kentucky at Navy | -7 |
| Florida State at NC State | 23 |
| Louisiana Tech at Auburn | -33 |
| Stanford at Washington | 5.5 |
| Temple at Connecticut | 3.5 |
| Texas at Kansas | 14 |
| Colorado at California | -13 |
| South Alabama at Idaho | 7 |
| UTSA at Florida Atlantic | 4 |
| Cincinnati at Ohio State | -13 |
| Central Michigan at Toledo | -15 |
| Boise State at Air Force | 15 |
| North Carolina at Clemson | -10 |
| Rice at Southern Miss | 10.5 |
| Missouri at South Carolina | -5.5 |
| Troy at Louisiana-Monroe | -11 |
| Memphis at Mississippi | -21 |
| New Mexico State at LSU | -43 |
| Duke at Miami | -5.5 |
| Texas State at Tulsa | -5.5 |
| Notre Dame at Syracuse | 13 |
| UNLV at San Diego State | -17 |
| Washington State at Utah | -10 |
| Baylor at Iowa State | 22 |
| Illinois at Nebraska | -19 |
| Nevada at San Jose State | 3 |
| Oregon State at Southern Cal | -13 |
No. 1 Florida State visits NC State after narrowly escaping with a 23-17 overtime win against Clemson last Saturday. Florida State is now 0-4 ATS over its last four games. Jameis Winston is set to return at quarterback this week against the Wolfpack, as the Seminoles open as a 23-point favorite on the road.
The Cincinnati Bearcats are 4-3 SU and 5-2 ATS in their last five games as a betting underdog, and they will be in that role on Saturday when they visit the No. 22 Ohio State Buckeyes. Coming off of a 66-0 win over Kent State, the Buckeyes are a 14.5-point home favorite.
The No. 7 Baylor Bears are 6-2 SU but only 2-6 ATS in their last eight games as a road favorite. Baylor is favored by 21.5 points this Saturday visiting the Iowa State Cyclones. Iowa State is 3-1 ATS in its last four games as a home underdog, according to the OddsShark college football database.
The Illinois Fighting Illini visit No. 21 Nebraska this Saturday as an 18-point underdog on the road. Illinois is just 1-8 ATS in its last nine games as a road underdog and 1-8 ATS in its last nine road games against Big Ten opponents.
