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College football gambling action on Saturday contains what seems to be a mismatch for handicappers to bet on NCAA football with as Texas competes with Rice. College football gambling buffs will have their choice of a traditional power and perennial national championship contender versus a vulnerable non-BCS asset to bet on NCAA football with. 
With kickoff on ESPN at 3:35 PM Eastern, Texas opened at the online sports books as a 28.5-point favorite. The competition will be competed at Reliant Stadium in Houston, home of the NFL’s Houston Texans.
As 4-year starting quarterback Colt McCoy is gone and will be replaced by sophomore Garrett Gilbert, who had to take the place of McCoy after he went down to injury in the BCS Championship Game loss to Alabama, Texas will have a significant new look in sports gambling odds. No drop-off is anticipated and Gilbert is reported to have a stronger arm than McCoy.
Having said that, the Longhorns should have six new starters on an offense that averaged over 40 points per competition the prior two years. The defense brings back 7 starters for really revered coordinator and head coach in waiting Will Muschamp.
Rice endured a significant NCAA gambling drop-off last year as they ended 2-10 after a 10-3 mark in 2008. That continued a feast or famine type of run by fourth year coach David Bailiff who commenced his career with a 3-9 mark after taking command for a team that went 7-6.
Rice should be back up in 2010 if the trend goes on, and with 10 starters coming back on both sides of the line that is the expectation.
As he passed for 162 yards and 2 touchdowns in the 2nd half and got the Horns within 3 points before the Crimson Tide put the competition away, Gilbert recovered after a unstable start in last year’s 37-21 loss to Alabama. There will be plenty of strain on Gilbert as the program has won at least 10 matches per year for 9 sequential seasons.
Head coach Mack Brown refuses to claim that Texas is in a rebuilding or transition year with the NCAA football odds.
“I don’t like that word,” Brown said. “Because it gives the kids and the coaches an excuse not to be good.” Rice was clobbered by Texas 52-10 as 29-point underdogs in their last competition in 2008 and has a NCAA football betting mark of just 10-22 versus the spread in non conference action since 2002.
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