Connecticut will come into this one with heavy hearts as one of their players, Jasper Howard, was stabbed and killed at a party last week. Coach Randy Edsall has had a rough week, including helping his team through this trying time. In week 8's match-up, Connecticut will face West Virginia, and it will be a tough game to focus on with the events that took place for these kids this past week.

 

West Virginia is 5-0 against UConn all time, and are playing their first ranked game this season. The point spread shows the Mountaineers as favorites at home by a margin of 7.5 points at BoDog Sportsbook. This game will play out in either of these two ways: UConn will play a distracted football game, and get beaten badly by WVU, or UConn will get a measure of revenge on the field for their fallen teammate.

 

I would certainly lean on the latter of the two, as this team was talked to by their coach and were told that they had already lost one young player to a tragedy, and that UConn didn't need another loss due to a revenge mindset. These players have mixed emotions and will give it their all in this game on Saturday. Again I fail to trust the ranked teams laying points to a non-ranked club. The revenge from a loss factor is in play, showing UConn getting beaten last season to these Mountaineers by a margin of 22 points. Another key factor in winning this game against the spread is that the public, again, favors the Mountaineers.

Get in your bets for the UConn vs WVU game at BoDog Sportsbook.  They have the NCAAF odds up for every remaining game on the week 8 college football schedule.         

 

UConn players will be wearing stickers on their helmets to remember and honor Jasper this weekend. Look for the Huskies to fight in this game, and even win this outright. The emotion is just too high, and they will get through this game and especially cover the point spread of 7.5 points.