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West Virginia +7½ over Pittsburgh

Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium – Morgantown, WV

3:30 PM ET. West Virginia spit the bit last week at Ohio. It wasn’t just a loss, it was ugly, and the market reacted. What opened at +4½ is now +7½, a full field goal of inflation based on one poor showing. That’s an overreaction.

This isn’t a random Week 3. This is the Backyard Brawl. Pitt and WVU don’t dislike each other — they hate each other. History says these games are knife fights, not blowouts.

Pitt is 2-0, but those wins came against Central Michigan and Duquesne at home. This is Morgantown. This is a hornet’s nest. Rivalries of this magnitude make records and form irrelevant, and asking the Panthers to cover north of a touchdown here is reckless. Wrong side favored. We’ll gladly take the inflated tag with the home dog.

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