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 |
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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 |
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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 |