West Virginia and Pitt will battle on Saturday afternoon as the Panthers come to Morgantown for another edition of The Backyard Brawl. Things have been shifting toward the Panthers, as the Vegas line has gone from -2.5 to -7.5 in favor of Pitt.<\/p>\n
So, we know how the bettors feel, but what about everyone else?\u00a0\u00a0EerSports has taken this opportunity to look around the industry for the experts’ thoughts on the game and if they agree. Here’s what we found.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starting with the computers, ESPN’s Football Power Index<\/a> gives the Mountaineers a 40.6% chance of winning. PFF’s Greenline<\/a>\u00a0likes West Virginia even less at\u00a038.6%, while Bill Connelly’s SP+<\/a>\u00a0middles the two, giving WVU a 39% chance of winning the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n As for living human beings, David Kenyon over at BleacherReport<\/a> has\u00a0Pitt winning, 24-16. All three experts at AthlonSports<\/a>\u00a0picked the Panthers.<\/p>\n And…. that’s it. Because neither team is ranked, not many college football national writers are taking the time to pick this week’s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Virginia and Pitt will battle on Saturday afternoon as the Panthers come to Morgantown for another edition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-153809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}