Oklahoma is favored by 40 points playing at home against the bottom-dwelling Jayhawks, who actually are better this season than they have been since former OU assistant Mark Mangino left the head-coaching post in Lawrence back in 2009.
Mangino, who joined Bob Stoops from Kansas State when Stoops became head coach at Oklahoma in 1999 and was the Sooners’ offensive coordinator in the Sooners’ national championship season in 2000 and again in 2001, posted a winning record in eight seasons at Kansas.
The Jayhawks were 50-48 under Mangino. Since then, they have gone 12-60 overall and have won just three of 57 games in the Big 12, including four losses this season.