Texas vs. West Virginia odds, spread, lines: Week 5 college football picks, predictions by computer model
Predictions for Texas vs. West Virginia on the Week 5 college football schedule
A pair of 2-2 rivals in the Big 12 square off on the Forty Acres as Texas welcomes West Virginia in college football's Week 5 action on Saturday.
Texas comes in on the heels of a heartbreaking overtime loss at Texas Tech while the Mountaineers have won 2 straight after starting 0-2 and own an impressive win over Virginia Tech.
What do the experts think of the matchup? Let's see how the College Football Power Index computer prediction model projects the game.
The index is going heavy with the home team, as Texas comes in with the big 85.1 percent chance to defeat the Mountaineers on Saturday.
That leaves West Virginia with a 14.9 percent chance to beat the Longhorns on the road in conference play.
The oddsmakers are also siding with Texas, which comes into the game as 9 point favorites, according to the line at SI Sportsbook, which set the over/under mark at 62 points for the matchup.
Texas still owns an impressive No. 6 national position on the index's 131 college football rankings despite losing 2 of its first 4 games.
That accounts for the FPI being more of a predictive model rather than a straightforward power ranking, indicating that the index believes Texas should be favored in most if not all of its games going forward.
Take West Virginia and the points