West Virginia - Oklahoma (-7.5) Last choice by NCAAF with another premiere in conference play, for BIG12.
The Oklahoma Sooners will go to West Virginia today in a season that can be great for Oklahoma's historic school. Sooners have one of the most complete rosters in their history. Oklahoma's national ranking at 4 so far has not played with particularly strong opponents but has emphatically cleared the matches. In the last one that went up a bit with Tennessee, he beat 34-10 with the line at 21 points. Impressive up to now on both sides of the ball, good running game and stable passing game, while defending he has kept all three opponents he encountered under 18 points. At this moment Oklahoma is running a seven-win series and last season, and the big win over Alabama in bowl game.
West Virginia is not a negligible quantity and has a strong seat. This is the reason why we find a pretty good line here for the favorite. They try to play up tempo and aggressively and started off with a good look but a draw against the mighty Alabama 23-33. They then made two more victories, but their last appearance with Maryland revealed their defensive weaknesses against a team that could run the ball like Oklahoma. The other problem that seems to have been the many turnovers that the attack does while in the redzone has low productivity this year. In a fairly unstable defensive line, 4 added fresh problems, as it was hit by the pass coverage with 3 corner backs being absent from the current match, while losing a line backer.
West Virginia is 1-6 ats in the latest 7 conference matches, and 2-5 in the last 7 within. 6-1ats the Sooners in the last 7 total and 4-0 away.
Oklahoma is dreaming of big things this year and I think it has the material to make it happen. Today's match is ideal to send a message to the others with a good appearance. West is dangerous but apart from the absences he will have today in his weak defense, I do not think that he will easily score against an elite defensive line. The options and weapons that Oklahoma has for today's game are more and easily or I hardly believe it can win the game with a difference close to 10 to 14 points. Although I generally avoid 7.5 as a line in football I will make an exception here with the Sooners, with Stoiximan offering it at 1.93.
