Oklahoma State travels to West Virginia. No market line yet; the model gives West Virginia a 68% shot.
What’s at stake
West Virginia
- West Virginia is the state's program — there's no other Power-5 football team in the entire state — and that geographic monopoly makes Morgantown the loudest Saturday in the Big 12.
Oklahoma State
- Oklahoma State hasn’t beaten a ranked opponent since 2023.
The series
Oklahoma State leads the series 10-6
16 meetings since 1928 · West Virginia won the last meeting
- 2024West Virginia 38–14
- 2023Oklahoma State 48–34
- 2022West Virginia 24–19
- 2021Oklahoma State 24–3
- 2020Oklahoma State 27–13
Face-off
What each fanbase carries into this one.
Oklahoma State
The chip · vs big brotherThe fanbase spent a generation insisting Stillwater was its own program, not a satellite of the school 80 miles south. A 1-11 season handed Oklahoma every easy joke — and the room is daring Morris to make the rivalry feel like a rivalry again.
What this game touches
The 1-11 collapse and the end of Gundy. Mike Gundy, the program's identity for 21 seasons, was fired on September 23 after a 1-2 start curdled into the worst year in modern memory: 1-11 overall, 0-9 in the Big 12, ten straight losses. The man who built Oklahoma State into a sustained winner left as the season that ended his tenure became the program's lowest point in a generation.
West Virginia
The chip · vs the national mediaMountaineer fans are tired of their state's only major team being treated as an afterthought, a hard place to recruit, a name from the past. They say Morgantown is the loudest Saturday nobody outside the state bothers to watch — and they wear the slight like armor.
What this game touches
The 2007 Backyard Brawl. Ranked No. 2 and a home win over 4-7 Pitt from the BCS title game, West Virginia lost 13-9 in the season's biggest stunner — and two weeks later Rich Rodriguez left for Michigan. The closest the program ever came to the summit became its deepest scar, and the man at the center of it is now the head coach again.
Best players
West Virginia
- Fred Perry (S) · 2025: 78 tackles
- Darrian Lewis (S) · 2025: 75 tackles
- Reid Carrico (LB) · 2025: 69 tackles
Oklahoma State
- Parker Robertson (S) · 2025: 77 tackles
- Bryan McCoy (LB) · 2025: 71 tackles
- Brandon Rawls (LB) · 2025: 68 tackles
The line, and the room
Oklahoma State fans are feeling better about their season (46th percentile) than West Virginia fans are (18th) — even with West Virginia favored here.
Conditions
West Virginia is 62% at home, 37% on the road since 2018 (30-18 home, 16-27 away).