The Las Vegas line favors the Sooners by three touchdowns over Houston, but some of the cable network analysts as well as a few other college football writers and analysts see this game being high scoring but much closer than betting odds indicate.
My assessment falls somewhere in between. I do see both offenses more than capable of putting up plenty of points, but I believe the OU defense will outperform the Houston defense, which actually ranked worse than the Sooners a year ago, force a couple of critical turnovers, and win this game by 17 to 21 points.