Coming off a disappointing home loss to Texas Tech, Mike Gundy's club should be motivated to take out their frustrations on the Jayhawks on Saturday. Kansas has improved but is still has a ways to go before it can compete with the upper echelon of the Big 12. Gundy made headlines earlier this week for his interaction with the media, but he'd much rather make them on behalf of his team getting a convincing win.

Baylor beat Kansas by 19 points a week ago, and while using recent results to justify future outcomes in college football is always somewhat dangerous, I can't get past that fact. The Jayhawks deserve praise for winning consecutive games and humiliating Rutgers, but let's not forget that Kansas is still a down-and-out program and does not have near the caliber of players as a school like Oklahoma State. The Cowboys got routed by a talented Texas Tech offense a week ago, but it's also a team that beat the doors off Boise State and is well aware that a treacherous slate lies ahead. It is not normally my bag to take spreads of more than two touchdowns, but without much of a homefield advantage and with OSU badly needing a bounce-back, I like the Cowboys to win by three touchdowns or more.

Kansas is 2-2 on the season, which is fantastic for Kansas, but I believe it's also misleading. The Jayhawks beat both Rutgers and Central Michigan, two teams who are a combined 2-6 with wins over Texas State and Maine. They aren't good. Kansas also lost to Nicholls to open the season, and last week it lost by 19 to a Baylor team that lost by two scores to a Duke team without its starting QB the week before. What I'm saying is, I don't think Kansas is very good. And with Oklahoma State coming off an unexpected loss to Texas Tech, I think the Cowboys are being underestimated with this line. I would have Oklahoma State as a three-touchdown favorite.