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West Virginia football is looking to win its second game in a row on Saturday against Cincinnati. The team will have to pick up the victory with their backup quarterback. Mountaineers backup Nicco Marchiol is getting the start against the Bearcats, per 247 Sports. West Virginia starter Garrett Greene is still recovering from an upper […]

West Virginia and Cincinnati are on the outside looking in on the Big 12 conference standings, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some implications for this matchup. The Bearcats are one win away from bowl eligibility, while the Mountaineers need two wins over their final four games. The teams faced each other for the first […]

West Virginia football has fired its defensive coordinator, per ESPN. Jordan Lesley is out at WVU after fielding one of the worst pass defenses in the country this season. Lesley served as defensive coordinator for the Mountaineers since the 2020 season. He came to West Virginia in 2019, when head coach Neal Brown got the […]

Despite last season’s 9-4 campaign that concluded with a win in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl last December, West Virginia Mountaineers head coach Neal Brown came into the 2024 season on a hotter seat than he would’ve liked. A 3-4 start hasn’t done much to cool it down, and now as Brown prepares his Mountaineers to […]

West Virginia continues its season in Week 9 when they take on Arizona. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a West Virginia-Arizona prediction and pick. West Virginia visits Arizona this Saturday in a compelling non-conference matchup. The Mountaineers (3-4) are looking to get back on track after a bad loss […]

We’re set for another betting prediction and pick for College Football Week 8 as we head to the Big 12 Conference for this next tilt. The No. 17 Kansas State Wildcats (5-1) will visit the West Virginia Mountaineers (3-3) in a closely contested game on the betting lines. It is time to continue our college […]

It is time to continue our college football odds series with an Iowa State-West Virginia prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Iowa State-West Virginia. The Iowa State Cyclones and West Virginia Mountaineers have not experienced the same season. ISU is unbeaten at 5-0 while West Virginia is 3-2, enduring a loss to Penn […]

Iowa State football is undefeated and rolling in the Big 12 Conference this season. Armed with young gun Rocco Becht at quarterback, the Cyclones are spinning in the right direction toward a conference championship game appearance. West Virginia is the next opponent that stands in the way. The Mountaineers have won two in a row, […]

Virginia State will head south to face Oklahoma State in a compelling showdown on Saturday in Oklahoma. We’re live from Boone Pickens Stadium, sharing our college football odds series and making a West Virginia-Oklahoma State prediction and pick. West Virginia defeated Kansas 32-28 last weekend to improve their record to 2-2. Significantly, they overcame a […]

The West Virginia Mountaineers and Kansas Jayhawks try to get back to .500 as they sit at 1-2. Kansas is trying to find its offensive identity, while West Virginia can’t seem to stop whatever offensive attack is thrown at them. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Kansas-West Virginia prediction […]

Pat Narduzzi’s blunt comments about the officiating in the Pittsburgh Panthers’ win over the West Virginia Mountaineers last Saturday came back to bite him — financially. The ACC has dropped the hammer on Narduzzi for his criticism of the officials in the said football game, with the conference reprimanding him publicly in a statement released […]

The Backyard Brawl returns on Saturday when the West Virginia Mountaineers face the Pitt Panthers. The teams have matched up 106 times in the rivalry’s history, with Pitt winning 62 times. West Virginia took the victory in a defensive affair last season, grabbing a 17-6 win. The Mountaineers enter this game with a 1-1 record, […]

College football is back in full force, and Week 1 was filled with a lot of results that met expectations. Powerhouse programs like the Georgia Bulldogs, Ohio State Buckeyes and Alabama Crimson Tide won handily, while the Oregon Ducks, Colorado Buffaloes and NC State Wolfpack also captured victories in their matchups. Even though many teams […]

Penn State football coach James Franklin wants consistency from his team this season. Franklin is happy with the team’s first step, after the team crushed West Virginia Saturday. “We got to it today,” Franklin said, per ESPN. “But we’ve got to do it week in and week out.” Penn State football built a 20-6 halftime […]

West Virginia football is focused on making some noise in the revamped Big 12 Conference this season, as they begin the 2024 campaign with a difficult matchup against the visiting Penn State Nittany lions on Saturday afternoon. But the program is still making sure to remember one of the university’s most famous alums, Jerry West. […]

The West Virginia football team quietly had a solid season in the Big 12 Conference last season, but fell short of winning the league. Heading into the 2024-2025 season, the Mountaineers have received a generous gift from one of its most famous alumni: sports talk show host Pat McAfee, who played as a punter with […]

The Pat McAfee Show made its way to Morgantown a day before a huge college football clash between West Virginia and Penn State. The Mountaineers finished 9-4 last season and third in the Big 12. With Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC and Utah and others joining the Big 12, West Virginia could be […]

Penn State looks to make a run at the playoffs as they start their season visiting West Virginia. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Penn State-West Virginia prediction and pick. Penn State is coming off its tenth season with James Franklin as the head coach. After winning the Rose […]

Former Los Angeles Rams wide receiver and special teams playmaker Tavon Austin is hanging up his cleats. Austin announced his retirement from the NFL Tuesday, after more than a decade playing in the league. Former Rams WR and West Virginia standout Tavon Austin is retiring from football, he announced on IG. One of the greatest […]

West Virginia football has a rich tradition. The program has won the most games of any college football program in the country, to not win a national championship. The Mountaineers got close a few times, having an undefeated season in 1993 and losing in the national title game to Notre Dame during the 1988 season. […]

Expectations are high for West Virginia football this season. The Mountaineers had their best season under head coach Neal Brown in 2023, winning nine games. The team also throttled North Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. While many are not expecting West Virginia to win the Big 12 conference this season, here are a few […]

Neal Brown has a lot of work to do to reinvigorate the West Virginia football squad. He needs to develop Nicco Marchiol in the coming months such that the Mountaineers have a steady play-caller come fall. However, the head honcho has other concerns at the moment. He is particularly concerned about changing the outlook when […]

As part of the celebration for his team’s win at the Duke’s Mayo Bowl against the North Carolina Tar Heels on Wednesday night, West Virginia football head coach Neal Brown got the honor of getting mayonnaise dumped on him. Mayo = Dumped. 👏 @NealBrown_WVU pic.twitter.com/DdpnbrhKuH — West Virginia Football (@WVUfootball) December 28, 2023 That must […]

The Duke’s Mayo Bowl is an annual bowl game that has been played in the state of North Carolina since 2002. It began as the Continental Tire Bowl but became the Meineke Car Care Bowl from 2005 to 2010. From 2011 to 2019, it was the Belk Bowl before moving on to its current sponsorship. […]

North Carolina has lost their last three bowl games, as they face West Virginia in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. It is time to continue our College Football odds series with a Duke’s Mayo Bowl North Carolina-West Virginia prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. The Duke’s Mayo Bowl began in 2002 as the Continental Tire Bowl. Originally this […]

The West Virginia Mountaineers take on the Baylor Bears. Check out our college football odds series for our West Virginia Baylor prediction and pick. Find how to watch West Virginia Baylor. The Baylor Bears won the Big 12 championship and the Sugar Bowl two seasons ago. Now, they’re in free-fall, having tumbled to the bottom […]

The West Virginia Mountaineers take on the Oklahoma Sooners. Check out our college football odds series for our West Virginia Oklahoma prediction and pick. Find how to watch West Virginia Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Sooners had everything going their way a few weeks ago. They had beaten Texas and were unbeaten on the season. They had […]

The BYU Cougars take on the West Virginia Mountaineers. Check out our college football odds series for our BYU West Virginia prediction and pick. Find how to watch BYU West Virginia. The BYU Cougars and West Virginia Mountaineers are in similar positions. They haven’t yet clinched bowl eligibility but are very close. Making a bowl […]

UCF is looking for their first conference win, as they face West Virginia. It is time to continue our College Football odds series with a West Virginia-UCF prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. West Virginia comes into the game at 4-3 on the year, with a 2-2 record in conference play. They opened the season with a […]

The Oklahoma State Cowboys will battle the West Virginia Mountaineers this weekend. We’re sharing our college football odds series, making an Oklahoma State-West Virginia prediction and pick while showing you how to watch. Oklahoma State shocked Kansas State 39-32 last weekend. Ultimately, they jumped on the Jayhawks early. But they trailed 25-24 at halftime and […]

College football is a game that produces some of the wildest finishes in all of sports. For some reason, it seems like late weeknight games produce the most drama, and that is exactly what we saw on Thursday night between Houston football and West Virginia football. The Cougars are new to the Big 12 this […]

West Virginia looks to stay undefeated in conference play as they face Houston. It is time to continue our College Football odds series with a West Virginia-Houston prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. West Virginia comes into the game at 4-1 on the season, a surprise from their preseason expectations. They lost the opening game to Penn […]

The West Virginia Mountaineers take on the TCU Horned Frogs. Check out our college football odds series for our West Virginia TCU prediction and pick. Find how to watch West Virginia TCU. The West Virginia Mountaineers and head coach Neal Brown are in a very interesting position. They are 3-1, but on many levels, they […]

It is a Big 12 showdown as Texas Tech travels to play West Virginia. It is time to continue our College Football odds series with a Texas Tech-West Virginia prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. Texas Tech enters the game at 1-2 on the season, but the two losses have been close. They opened with a two-point […]

The Pitt Panthers take on the West Virginia Mountaineers. Check out our college football odds series for our Pitt West Virginia prediction and pick. Find how to watch Pitt West Virginia. This is it. This is the final moment of truth for West Virginia head coach Neal Brown. If Brown does not win this game […]

The Backyard Brawl is an American college football rivalry between the West Virginia University Mountaineers and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. The “Backyard Brawl” name also refers to college basketball games between the schools. There have been 105 editions of the game, dating back to 1895. This year’s game will be on September 16th, 2023, […]

The Backyard Brawl is one of the longest-running rivalries in college sports. It is named such because of the close proximity between the schools. The football game between Pittsburgh and West Virginia had been played on a nearly permanent basis since 1895, but in 2011/2012, the two programs left the Big East Conference, putting the […]

The West Virginia Mountaineers take on the Penn State Nittany Lions. Check out our college football odds series for our West Virginia Penn State prediction and pick. Find how to watch West Virginia Penn State. This game will bring back memories for college football fans over 50 years old. Penn State and West Virginia were […]

Big 12 media days have been fun to watch, especially with all of the rumors swirling regarding expansion. However, West Virginia football head coach Neal Brown was extremely candid and honest when discussing the preseason media poll. The Texas Longhorns were picked first by the media, which itself brought a ton of reactions. But, the […]