Penn State vs. West Virginia: Can the Nittany Lions Cover?
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00:02 Keep it moving and head here till Saturday.
00:04 West Virginia and Penn State, 7.30 PM Eastern kickoff here.
00:09 Again, the total opens up at the Fanville Sportsbook here in this game,
00:13 54.5 today, 50.5 as a total.
00:16 The favorite for Penn State, they open up as a 19.5 point favorite.
00:20 That's been bounced up now to 20.5 points.
00:23 The one thing we can take a look at Penn State,
00:25 I do love this about James Franklin.
00:27 If you want him to cover numbers against teams they're supposed to put away,
00:29 he loves to run up the score in the fourth quarter when the game is out of reach.
00:34 You take a look at West Virginia, yeah, a storied football program, but
00:37 picked to be one of the worst teams in the Big 12 this year.
00:40 So if I'm putting two and two together, Penn State's the better football team,
00:43 Penn State's at home.
00:45 You do like to run the score up a little bit with James Franklin.
00:48 I think they cover this number this weekend.
00:49 Talk to me a little bit about West Virginia and
00:51 Penn State here to start the season for the Nittany Lions.
00:54 >> Well, I know it's kind of a do or die season there for West Virginia and
00:59 their coach and that staff there, right?
01:02 So there are some questions as far as what this team,
01:07 I mean, they're slated to be about a 500 team this year when you look at
01:12 a lot of the win totals and what a lot of guys are perceiving this team to be,
01:17 that being West Virginia.
01:18 Now, you brought up a good point here.
01:21 Penn State tends to, in games in which they are the better team at home and
01:26 have an ability to be able to step on your throat, they will.
01:30 So I think this all comes down to whether you think West Virginia can hang with
01:35 them long enough where they're not gonna have the ability to do that.
01:39 But this is a tough one for me because you're right.
01:44 They know that style points matter.
01:46 And Penn State, if given the chance and the opportunity, will run up this score.
01:52 I think defensively, they are heads and tails above where West Virginia is.
01:57 I think it's gonna be a tough offensive day for West Virginia in this one.
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