Massive 12 rivals headed in reverse instructions meet up this weekend as West Virginia hosts TCU in faculty soccer’s Week 9 motion on Saturday.
West Virginia is unranked and sitting at 3-4 on the 12 months, with only a 1-3 mark in convention play, dropping two of its final three total, most just lately an unpleasant 48-10 choice on the street to Texas Tech.
TCU, in the meantime, is undefeated this season, coming off two dramatic victories over Oklahoma State and Kansas State, and received 4 straight video games towards ranked groups during the last month.
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What do the consultants consider the matchup? Let’s examine how the School Soccer Energy Index pc prediction mannequin initiatives the sport.
TCU vs. West Virginia picks, predictions
Week 9 faculty soccer picks: TCU vs. West Virginia
The pc is siding with the street group this week, as TCU has the 67.9 p.c probability to defeat West Virginia and stay undefeated on Saturday.
That leaves the Mountaineers a 32.1 p.c shot handy the Horned Frogs their first lack of the season.
The oddsmakers mission an in depth recreation, as TCU comes within the 7 level favorites over West Virginia, based on the traces at SI Sportsbook, which set the over/underneath mark at 69 factors for the matchup.
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TCU is available in at No. 15 on the index’s 131 faculty soccer rankings, a mirrored image of its projected per-game scoring margin towards common groups: FPI estimated the Frogs are 13.7 factors higher on a impartial area and predicts they are going to win 10.2 video games this season.
The pc ranked West Virginia at No. 51 total, useless final within the Massive 12, and anticipated to win 4.7 video games on the 12 months.
AP high 25 voters have been extra beneficiant to TCU, which got here in at No. 7 within the newest official rankings this week.
Soccer Energy Index (FPI) faculty soccer rankings and pc prediction mannequin are a measure of group power that predicts a group’s future efficiency.
Rankings and scores predictions are based mostly on 20,000 simulations of a group’s season, utilizing a mixture of analytics, together with scores thus far, high quality of opponents, and a group’s schedule.
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Based on AP high 25 ballot
1. Georgia (31 1st-place votes) 2. Ohio State (18) 3. Tennessee (13) 4. Michigan 5. Clemson (1) 6. Alabama 7. TCU 8. Oregon 9. Oklahoma State 10. USC T-10. Wake Forest 12. UCLA 13. Penn State 14. Utah 15. Ole Miss 16. Syracuse 17. Illinois 18. LSU 19. Kentucky 20. Cincinnati 21. North Carolina 22. Kansas State 23. Tulane 24. NC State 25. South Carolina
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The West Virginia Mountaineers picked up another commitment in the 2025 recruiting class Monday evening, securing a pledge from offensive lineman Jahmir Davis (6’6″, 305 lbs) out of LaSalle High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Davis also held an offer from Marshall and interest from Iowa State and Illinois.
Davis took a visit to Morgantown over the weekend and with his announcement, he became the 22nd recruit to commit to WVU this cycle, and the fourth offensive lineman to do so, joining Amir Leonard-Jean Charles, Gavin Crawford, and Eidan Buchanan.
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For just a half second, things were starting to look a little hairy for the West Virginia Mountaineers and their chances of reaching a bowl game. Over the weekend, they took care of the visiting UCF Knights to collect that key sixth win of the season, punching their ticket to a bowl game.
Now the question is, where will the Mountaineers land?
With just one game remaining in the regular season, WVU can’t really increase its bowl stock all that much. Right now, it’s more about not falling further down the totem pole.
While it is extremely unlikely, there is still a “path” for the Mountaineers to the College Football Playoff, believe it or not. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with having five quality losses. That’s sarcasm, by the way. WVU can still make the Big 12 title game but needs several unlikely upsets to happen in the final week of the regular season. If the unthinkable happens and WVU gets to Arlington and wins the Big 12 title, boom. The Mountaineers are in the CFP at 8-5.
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On the more realistic side of things, West Virginia will likely end up at either the Independence Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Armed Forces Bowl, or First Responder Bowl. For a team that had legit aspirations of making the College Football Playoff at the start of the year, landing at one of the aforementioned destinations is quite the disappointment, with all due respect to those bowls.
Nonetheless, the Mountaineers still have an opportunity to finish the year with a 6-3 mark in Big 12 play for the second straight year with a win over Texas Tech on Saturday.
Action Network: Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl vs. Army
Athlon Sports: Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl vs. Tulane
CBS Sports: Gasparilla Bowl vs. Florida
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College Football Network: SERVPRO First Responder Bowl vs. East Carolina
College Football News: AutoZone Liberty Bowl vs. Arkansas
ESPN (Kyle Bonagura): Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl vs. Navy
ESPN (Mark Schlabach): Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl vs. Oklahoma
Sporting News: Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl vs. Arkansas
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USA Today: SERVPRO First Responder Bowl vs. Oklahoma
West Virginia On SI: AutoZone Liberty Bowl vs. Vanderbilt
1. Valero Alamo Bowl vs Pac-12, Saturday, Dec. 28, 7:30 p.m. EST, ABC
2. Pop-Tarts Bowl vs ACC/ND, Saturday, Dec. 28, 3:30 p.m. EST, ABC
3. TaxAct Texas Bowl vs SEC, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m. EST, ESPN
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4. AutoZone Liberty Bowl vs SEC, Friday, Dec. 27, 7:00 p.m. EST, ESPN
5. Guaranteed Rate Bowl vs Big Ten, Thursday, Dec. 26, 5:30 p.m. EST, ESPN
6. Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl vs. Pac 12, Saturday, Dec. 28, 9:15 p.m. EST, ESPN
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Michigan State football appears to be closing in on their newest commitment in the 2025 recruiting class, looking to flip a prospect committed to another power conference school.
Terrance ‘Deuce’ Edwards is a defensive back prospect committed to West Virginia. A high 3-star prospect, Edwards is the cousin of former MSU wide receiver Felton Davis. He is from Richmond, Virginia.
After an official visit to see the Spartans defeat Purdue on Friday night, the Spartans seem to be in pole position to flip the West Virginia commit, receiving crystal ball predictions from the 247Sports staff.
At 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, Edwards is someone that can play both outside cornerback and in the nickel position.
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Be on the lookout for movement in this recruitment in the coming days.
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