Brut Sun Bowl Betting Preview: Oklahoma vs. Stanford

Come New Year’s Eve, both the Oklahoma Sooners and the No. 21 Stanford Cardinal will be looking to prove critics wrong in the Brut Sun Bowl (2:00 p.m. ET, CBS).

Oklahoma is a 10-point chalk and the O/U is at 55 at SPORTSBETTING.com.

Ranked No. 3 by both the AP and USA Today polls during the preseason, the Sooners not only lost 14-13 in their first game of the season to BYU, but also lost 2008 Heisman Trophy winner and starting QB Sam Bradford with a sprained shoulder.

Bradford would return,only to re-injure his shoulder and the Sooners, who played in the BCS title game a year ago, would go on to finish the season 7-5 SU, a far cry from last year’s pre-BCS championship record of 12-1 (SU).

Stanford RB Toby Gerhart would probably like to stick it to the critics as well, particularly those who voted on a certain trophy a few weeks ago.

Gerhart led the nation in rushing TDs with 26 and was third in rushing with 1,736 yards but was runner-up to Alabama RB Mark Ingram for the Heisman Trophy.

Some key college football betting stats for this game:

• The Sooners have a record of 7-2 ATS in their last nine games in the month of December.
• The Sooners are 14-6 ATS in their last 20 when favored by more than eight points.

<.li>The Cardinal have a record of six overs and no unders the last six times they have been an underdog of more than eight points.

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