NCAA College Football betting picks between the Oregon State Beavers versus the Pittsburgh Panthers

The Oregon State Beavers finished tied for second in the Pac-10 Conference and is the only school to defeat USC, 27-21 this season. The Oregon State Beavers will face the Pittsburgh Panthers (9-3, 5-2), who finished second in the Big East Conference. The Oregon State Beavers offense features freshman standout Jacquizz Rodgers and senior wideout Sammie Stroughter. Rodgers ranks second in the Pac-10 and 13th nationally in rushing, averaging 113.9 yards a game. Stroughter, who set up the game winning score at the 2006 Brut Sun Bowl with a 38-yard punt return, has recorded 64 catches for 952 yards and seven touchdowns. The Oregon State Beavers Quarterback Lyle Moevao had 19 touchdown passes and 11 interceptions. He threw a career-best 5 TD passes in a 65-38 loss to the Oregon State Beavers in the season finale. The Oregon State Beavers could get used to playing in bowl games out west. The Beavers have won four consecutive bowl games including the 2006 Sun Bowl and the Emerald Bowl last season that was played in San Francisco. Before that The Oregon State Beavers won bowl games in Phoenix and Las Vegas. The last time The Oregon State Beavers lost a bowl game was in 2002 to a Pitt team that featured Larry Fitzgerald.

The Pittsburgh Panthers have one more win but Oregon State has played a daunting schedule that featured three teams that made a BCS bowl game. After a 45-14 loss at Penn State earlier in the year, Oregon State pulled off the biggest upset of the football season with a 27-21 win over USC as 24-point underdogs. USC and Penn State will meet in the Rose Bowl. The week after the USC upset the Beavers lost a close game, 31-28, at Sugar Bowl-bound Utah, as 12-point underdogs. The Pittsburgh Panthers secured its selection with a 34-10 road win over Connecticut. The win marked the fourth win in the last five games for the Pittsburgh Panthers and gave them their first 9-win regular season since 1982. Pittsburgh defeated Kansas, 33-19, in the 1975 Sun Bowl. Wannstedt served as a graduate assistant coach for Majors. The Pittsburgh Panthers set an NCAA bowl game record that day, as three players from the same team rushed for 100 yards. Tony Dorsett rushed for 142 yards and two touchdowns and Elliott Walker added 123 yards and two touchdowns, while the game’s MVP, quarterback Robert Haygood, added 101 yards rushing and 60 yards through the air on eight of 11 passing.

This marks the 25th bowl appearance by the Pittsburgh Panthers, but the first since the 2004 season, when the Panthers won a share of the Big East Conference title and participated in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Pittsburgh is 11-13 all-time in bowl appearance and 2-0 in the 2009 Brut Sun Bowl.

Fearless NCAA College Football Betting Prediction: The Pittsburgh Panthers by 8 points

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