Injuries: Senior bandit safety Karl Joseph is out for the season after suffering a right knee injury in a non-contact drill prior to the Oklahoma State game.
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Coming into the game with their worst record to start a season in over half a century, the unranked Horns proceeded to stampede their Red River rivals, the No. 10 team in the land entering the game, on the ground, which has many college football analysts wondering if Texas has uncovered the formula for success against the Sooners. The Bears’ 17-5 postseason record over the last seven years is the nation’s fourth-best among teams with at least three NCAA Tournament appearances.
Hubener had 111 rushing yards, including four touchdowns, last weekend in Kansas State’s narrow loss to No. 2-ranked TCU.
-Two true freshmen in WR Jovon Durante and WR Gary Jennings saw action, while six redshirt freshmen did with OL Yodny Cajuste, OL Amanii Brown, QB William Crest, OL Jonathan Haynes, RB Donte Thomas-Williams and DL Jaleel Fields. He has rushed for 282 net yards on 57 carries for an average of 4.9 yards per attempt.
Oklahoma has four starters returning from last season’s Sweet 16 team.
Big 12 Conference Men’s Basketball Media Day is scheduled for October 20 at Sprint Center in Kansas City, site of the 2016 Phillips 66 Men’s Basketball Championship.
Boykin has won the Manning Award’s Star of the Week twice, for the Texas and Texas Tech games, has been the Football Writers Association of America’s national offensive player of the week (for the Texas Tech game) and earned Paul Hornung Award honor-roll recognition (for the Texas Tech game). “You’ve got to practice like you play”. “We’re going to blame them for beating us?” Trying to get the ball away from them is always a challenge. The Mountaineers have an FBS-best 13 interceptions, have allowed only six TDs through the air and are the only Big 12 team whose opponents have completed less than half of their passes. The Sooners need to exploit that back-end deficiency. They were able to grab 32.4 rebounds last season per game. They were able to possess the ball and score 40 points the other night.
Statistically speaking and talent-wise, there is no way Oklahoma should lose to this season’s Kansas State team. Hubener is not almost as elusive or unsafe running with the ball as Texas’ Jerrod Heard, but he can be sneaky quick and is more than capable of making plays with his feet and throwing the ball. If Striker and Alexander are successful in pressuring and containing the K-State quarterback, the Sooners will be hard to beat.
Two weeks ago the Mountaineers lost at Oklahoma 44-24, but that was a three-point game with one minute to go in the third quarter. West Virginia is 2-5 in conference games since that 41-27 victory at home over Baylor last season.
The Wildcats let them slip through their fingers.
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The under is 7-0 in Mountaineers last 7 games following a ATS loss and is 6-0 in Mountaineers last 6 games following a S.U. loss while going 9-1 in Mountaineers last 10 conference games. So despite the disparity that these two teams possess on the surface, the game should be a lot closer than expected.
