Hot! Big East Betting Preview

Connecticut Huskies at #16 West Virginia Mountaineers Mountaineer Field Morgantown, West Virginia Saturday, October 8, 2011, 12:00 pm Eastern, TV: Big East Network, SNY, Altitude, ESPN Game Plan Opening Line: West Virginia -21 Current Line: West Virginia -20 Opening Total: 55 1/2 Current Total: 55 1/2 Opening Money Line: WVU -1300 / UConn +850 Current Money Line: WVU -1000 / UConn +700

West Virginia contains Connecticut within the Big East opener for the two groups Saturday. West Virginia can be a something like 20 position favorite.

What a difference per year makes. Last 12 months these kind of a couple groups together with Pittsburgh tied for the Big East title, and Connecticut won your tiebreaker and obtained that Big East verts BCS bid. However this season UConn lost loads of ability about both facets from the ball, as well as their brain coach Randy Edsall that left for that Maryland job. This year, the actual Huskies under new private coach Paul Pasqualoni, tend to be 2-3 together with is the winner at home about Fordham 35-3 plus at Buffalo 17-3. UConn possesses failures at Vanderbilt 24-21, at your house against Iowa St 24-20, along with yesterday at your home versus Western Michigan 38-31. West Virginia, endure is 4-1 along with graded #16 from the AP poll. The Mountaineers are generally drilled by simply Dana Holgorsen throughout his primary year or so at West Virginia. The merely imperfection around the schedule emerged not one but two weeks in the past in your own home versus #1/#2 LSU 47-21. West Virginia possesses household gains all the perks more than Marshall 34-13, Norfolk St 55-12, and this morning around Bowling Green 55-10. They also have a new earn with Maryland 37-31. This is the Big East opener with regard to each schools. This is the eighth achieving between C0nnecticut plus West Virginia. The Mountaineers guide this line 6-1, though the Huskies conquer them to get at first chance at any time this past year around East Hartford 16-13 throughout overtime.

UConn and Western Michigan played your between the two adventure final week. It wasn big t decided till lower than 2 minutes left amongst people when Western Michigan have scored on a 41 backyard touchdown pass taking a new 38-31 lead. UConn seemed to be struggle to credit score on their particular previous possession. The Huskies have been 3 stage favorites around the college football betting series . The sport appeared to be poor on each factors as it showcased 25 merged penalties and three or more turnovers. Western Michigan changed 12-15 bank charges and 2 turnovers inside the win. The Huskies acquired 451 complete yards including more than two hundred yards spending by way of Johnny McEntee. McEntee furthermore have several touchdown passes. UConn placed that Broncos to 11 back yards rushing, but additionally granted 479 yards missing out on to be able to WMU quarterback Alex Carder, exactly who experienced your five touchdown passes.