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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A couple of Oklahoma State players majoring in clichés pledged to treat this weekend’s game at West Virginia “like a business trip.”

But have these guys ever been on an actual business trip? Where you step off the plane suddenly sensing you’ve landed in a new, magical city located just beyond the jurisdiction of common sense and HR guidelines, and the next 18 hours derails into a whirlwind of pubs and piano bars and guys in your group wearing neckties around their foreheads like Rambo (So we don’t get separated, duh!), and, because you’re not just another middle-management yahoo but more like an emissary sent from two time zones away to engage in world-changing talks over shots and local craft beers, each new establishment brings a life-defining conversation with some complete stranger—like solar panel sales reps who intermittently diss Chinese manufacturers and altostratus clouds, and waitresses who aren’t drop-dead gorgeous but definitely have “a certain quality” and somehow really “get you”—and through an exhaustive night of crushingly poor decisions you probably were too wise to make as 7-year-old but now can rationalize under the hyper-tolerant philosophy of “Hey, I can expense this!”, you return to your hotel with pockets full of crumpled receipts that will read like someone else’s diary tomorrow, and just when you’re finally intent upon getting two hours of replenishing sleep before your seminar convenes, some coworker drops the double-dog Mariano Rivera dare (“Be the closer!”), at which point you suavely hand your Visa card to a lady in the hotel lounge thinking it was your extra room key …

Is OSU talking about that kind of business trip? If so, WVU has a chance.

Week 5 Picks
Randy
Gyorko

Hoppy
Kercheval

Brad
Howe

Allan
Taylor
Oklahoma State
at West Virginia
Okla. State
31-14
Okla. State
38-17
Okla. State
49-14
Okla. State
26-17
Oklahoma
at Notre Dame
Oklahoma
30-20
Oklahoma
27-24
Oklahoma
28-21
Notre Dame
24-21
LSU
at Georgia
LSU
33-27
Georgia
31-28
Georgia
35-31
Georgia
34-28
Ole Miss
at Alabama
Alabama
40-27
Alabama
41-17
Alabama
38-24
Alabama
31-13
South Carolina
at UCF
S. Carolina
28-24
S. Carolina
24-16
S. Carolina
35-27
S. Carolina
27-23
Wisconsin
at Ohio State
Ohio State
37-24
Ohio State
38-21
Ohio State
42-28
Ohio State
31-24
Virginia Tech
at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech
34-28
Georgia Tech
21-17
Georgia Tech
21-17
Virginia Tech
20-16
Arizona
at Washington
Washington
52-41
Washington
35-24
Washington
38-21
Washington
34-30
USC
at Arizona State
Arizona St.
30-21
Arizona St.
20-14
Arizona St.
28-24
Arizona St.
21-16
Stanford
at Washington State
Stanford
41-10
Stanford
31-21
Stanford
28-20
Stanford
28-24
Last week:
Season total:
9-1
31-9
7-3
30-10
8-2
28-12
8-2
28-12
Week 5 Picks
Garrett
Cullen

Kyle
Wiggs

Greg
Hunter

Travis
Jones
Oklahoma State
at West Virginia
Okla. State
28-13
Okla. State
31-20
Okla. State
31-17
Okla. State
37-14
Oklahoma
at Notre Dame
Oklahoma
35-21
Oklahoma
24-17
Oklahoma
28-24
Notre Dame
24-21
LSU
at Georgia
Georgia
24-17
Georgia
34-31
Georgia
35-31
LSU
17-14
Ole Miss
at Alabama
Alabama
44-21
Alabama
31-20
Alabama
32-28
Alabama
28-24
South Carolina
at UCF
S.Carolina
34-21
S. Carolina
30-20
S. Carolina
27-20
S. Carolina
31-21
Wisconsin
at Ohio State
Ohio State
27-21
Ohio State
28-24
Wisconsin
24-21
Ohio State
31-24
Virginia Tech
at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech
21-14
Georgia Tech
30-20
Georgia Tech
35-17
Georgia Tech
23-13
Arizona
at Washington
Washington
45-41
Washington
24-17
Washington
41-38
Arizona
30-28
USC
at Arizona State
Arizona St.
31-24
Arizona St.
24-20
Arizona St.
45-35
USC
23-20
Stanford
at Washington State
Stanford
31-17
Stanford
40-30
Stanford
28-17
Stanford
27-10
Last week
Season total
6-4
26-14
8-2
25-15
6-4
25-15
7-3
23-17






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