The final score made it look closer than it really was for West Virginia at Texas last week. \u00a0It was their first road contest as a member of the BIg 12 and they passed, continuing their ascent up the national rankings.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
#4 West Virginia Mountaineers (5-0) vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (4-1)<\/strong> ATS Matchup Stats<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Gambling Insight!<\/a> |\u00a0Buy Ray’s Picks!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Their reward: \u00a0another road trip to an unfamiliar spot hosted by a team that should be smarting from their loss last week. \u00a0This is a rare case where an opponent visits Lubbock with the better passing attack.<\/p>\n That is due to Heisman favourite Geno Smith, who was just average by his standard last week, passing for under 300 yards with 4 more TDs. \u00a0Smith is making an assault on the record book having completed better than 81% of his passed with zero interceptions. \u00a0Worst of all for opponents WVU might finally be developing some balance running back Andrew Buie ripping through Texas for more than 200 yards last week.<\/p>\n At its current number this is one of my favourite lines of the week. \u00a0West Virginia at -4 sounds good to me against almost any opponent but especially so against a Texas Tech squad that was unproven until falling apart against a quality opponent last week. \u00a0Bet this one with confidence as WVU lines in the future might not be as friendly if they keep winning.<\/p>\n It is always interesting when programs get to prove their worth (or lack thereof). \u00a0Texas Tech had one of those chances last week squaring off against Oklahoma as an undefeated team. \u00a0They performed poorly with their \u201cvaunted\u201d defense surrendering 41 points to the Sooners. \u00a0Now they face an even more prolific and hot opponent. \u00a0It is a great opportunity. \u00a0Win and you are in the conference title picture, lose and confirm you are decidedly second tier, or worse. \u00a0Your move Tuberville. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n It was no surprise to me that the defense wound up being fraudulent but I was disappointed with the way the offense dried up too last week. \u00a0Tuberville has not been as pass happy as Mike Leach but Seth Doege usually still puts up numbers. \u00a0TT was about 100 yards below seasonal averages throwing the ball even though they were playing catchup nearly all game – something that is likely to occur again. \u00a0The QB will have to shake it off for the Red Raiders to have a chance this weekend.<\/p>\n The only way Texas Tech has a chance in this one is if they do something nobody has done yet this season – slow down the Mountaineers offense. \u00a0I wouldn\u2019t put a lot that happening. \u00a0Alternately WVU waltzed in Texas and beat them by 3 after a late score by the Longhorns. \u00a0Do you think the Red Raiders and going to be able to keep it that tight?<\/p>\n Spread Pick: \u00a0West Virginia -4<\/strong> Mountaineers vs Red Raiders NCAA Football Spread\/Handicapping The final score made it look closer than it really was for West Virginia at Texas last week. \u00a0It was their first road contest as a member of the BIg 12 and they passed, continuing their ascent up the national rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":24574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[324,325,56711,766,770,2843,3039,5471,56712,56713],"class_list":["post-55961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football-odds","tag-college-football-picks","tag-mountaineers-vs-red-raiders","tag-ncaa-football-lines","tag-ncaa-football-predictions","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-week-7","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers-vs-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-west-virginia-vs-texas-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56013,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55961\/revisions\/56013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Saturday October 13<\/strong>
\n Jones AT&T Stadium – Lubbock, TX<\/strong>
\n 3:30PM<\/strong>
\nMoneyline: West Virginia -175, Texas Tech +155<\/strong>
\n Spread: \u00a0West Virginia -4<\/strong>
\n O\/U: \u00a077<\/strong><\/p>\nWest Virginia<\/h3>\n
GRAB OUR BEST Expert CFB Picks for 2012 NCAA FOOTBALL Betting!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Texas Tech<\/h3>\n
\n O\/U Pick: \u00a0Under<\/strong>
\n Score Prediction: \u00a0West Virginia 45 – Texas Tech 21<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"