Kansas: Not much has gone right with Kansas football since the team fired Mark Mangino after the 2009 season. The Jayhawks opened the 2016 season off an 0-12 season in 2015, the school's seventh straight losing year. Kansas hasn't won more than three games in each of its last six season and entered 2016 on a 15-game losing skid. That ended with a season-opening home win 55-6 over Rhode island but it's been back to losing the last two games, 37-21 at home to Ohio U. and 43-7 at Memphis. Kansas had last Saturday off and will need to start faster here (trailed Ohio U 22-0 and Memphis 19-0), if it has any hope of breaking what's now become a 36-game road losing streak.

Texas Tech: The Red Raiders are coached by Kliff Kingsbury and his "Air Raid" offense. QB Patrick Mahomes II leads an offense which ranks second in scoring 61.0 PPG and total offense (678.7 YPG), as well as leading the nation in passing yards (547.7 per). He's completed 71.2 percent of his throws with 14 TDs and just two INTs. The talent surrounding him is outstanding and deep but the Texas Tech defense is giving up 531.3 YPG (124th) and 43.3 PPG (124th). Tech's lone loss came 68-55 at Arizona St, marking the third time since the beginning of last year in which Tech has lost a game in which it had scored at least 52 points!

The pick: Of course, no one is picking Kansas to win SU but the Jayhawks have some capable offensive weapons in QB Montell Cozart (68.6% and five TDs) plus WR Steven Sims Jr, who has 11 catches for 253 yards (23.0 YPC) with four TDs. The Red Raiders have won 16 of 17 meetings against the Jayhawks, including nine in a row, but struggled to a 30-20 victory last year. Kansas staying within this YUGE pointspread will be no surprise. Make Kansas a 10* play.