{"id":26083,"date":"2012-11-12T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26083"},"modified":"2012-11-12T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:21:29","slug":"college-football-week-12-picks-oklahoma-sooners-vs-west-virginia-mountaineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-12-picks-oklahoma-sooners-vs-west-virginia-mountaineers-26083\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 12 Picks: Oklahoma Sooners vs. West Virginia Mountaineers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners at West Virginia Mountaineers
\nSaturday, 11\/17\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma Sooners should score at least 40 points against the West Virginia Mountaineers on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma is coming off a 42-34 victory over the Baylor Bears as 21-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the fifth time in six contests.\u00a0 The Sooners surrendered a season-high 252 rushing yards last week, but there wasn\u2019t much concern about it in the locker room.\u00a0 \u201cWe knew we\u2019d suffer a little bit from the run game,\u201d stated Sooners head coach Bob Stoops.\u00a0 The program has lost twice to the Nos. 2 and 3 teams in the nation, which is praiseworthy in itself.\u00a0 Oklahoma is 1-3 ATS as a favorite of 10.5 to 21 points this season, something to consider when making your college football predictions this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Sooners lead the Big 12 Conference and rank eighth in the nation in allowing just 170.2 passing yards per game, while possessing the No. 24 scoring defense in the country.\u00a0 Oklahoma is the only team in the conference not to allow a 300-yard passer this year, while outscoring its last five such opponents by a 233-102 margin.\u00a0 Quarterback Landry Jones has completed 151-of-230 passes for 1,861 yards and 14 touchdowns with five interceptions in Big 12 play.<\/p>\n

West Virginia has absolutely fallen flat in dropping its last four games since beating Texas on Oct. 6, as it was handed a 55-34 setback to the Oklahoma State Cowboys as 10.5-point road underdogs last week.\u00a0 \u201cYou can\u2019t make very simple, junior-high mistakes, and be a very good football team,\u201d stated Mountaineers head coach Dana Holgorsen.\u00a0 The Mountaineers passing game will be tested in facing a Sooners secondary that hasn\u2019t allowed a single player to catch more than six passes in a single contest.\u00a0 West Virginia is 2-7 ATS on the year, with the OVER going 5-3 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Mountaineers continue to rank last in the nation in pass defense, while sitting 117th overall in scoring defense, giving up 41.4 points per game.\u00a0 West Virginia has already broken a school record by surrendering 373 points through nine games of the season.\u00a0 In hopes of slowing down the game, the offense may be hard pressed to do so, ranking 93rd in the country in rushing.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Sooners due to their 7-3 ATS mark on the road versus winning home teams, while the Mountaineers are 1-4 in November.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n

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No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners at West Virginia Mountaineers Saturday, 11\/17\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma is coming off a 42-34 victory over the Baylor Bears as 21-point home favorites, while going OVER the total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3267,2961,3235,408,449],"class_list":["post-26083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-big-12-conference","tag-bob-stoops","tag-landry-jones","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26088,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083\/revisions\/26088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}