Baylor Bears Upset of Number One Kansas State Huge for Books: Ducks Loss Too

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With the Kansas State Wildcats the single most wagered on team in Week 12 of the regular College Football season, the bookmakers made out like bandits.

Kansas State was a -12 favorite visiting Baylor and got crushed 24-52 by a Bears team that had a losing record coming into Saturday.

"Anger, frustration, obviously disappointment," Wildcats tight end Travis Tannahill said after the game.  "Confused. We just don't know what went wrong. We had a good week of practice. We felt prepared, everything we've done the last 10 games."

Don Shapiro of Gambling911.com noted:  “Everyone and their mother was coming onto the Gambling911 site as the game was coming to a close to find out what the spread was on this game and were probably wondering if that Wildcats -12 was a typo.”

It wasn’t, but these Wildcats looked like imposters.

The bookies had even more reason to celebrate after the AP top-ranked team, Oregon, fell to Stanford.  And that game was considered an even bigger upset since the Cardinal won on the road as a +20 underdog. 

It remains to be seen which team will sit atop the polls this week:  Notre Dame perhaps. 

Just two weeks ago the books suffered their biggest single day loss on record with nearly every NFL favorite and two publicly backed underdogs coming through for gamblers. 

- Mary Montgomery, Gambling911.com

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