I'm going with Rutgers as West Virginia not only comes off a huge win against Pittsburgh, but has won 14 straight against Rutgers and is now playing on the road on Sr. Day.
Rutgers knows what it feels like to lose on Sr. Day to another team. As they did to Syracuse two weeks ago, but against Louisville last week they simply dismantled a very bad Louisville and Schiano added in a new wrinkle for their best player Freshmen sensastion Mohamed Sanu. He operated out of the wild cat threw a TD pass and rushed 148 yards on 18 carries. Look for that to be in the mix as well to keep West Virginia's pass rush in balance. When Sanu is not taking the ball from the wild cat it will be the speedy Tim Brown moving the chains from Tom Savage. Joe Martinek at half back has been up and down and should struggle against West Virginia but he'll get a couple of goal line carries that will matter.
West Virginia pulled off the upset a week ago and we were on them to do so against Pitt. Today though they are just under matched Rutgers has the 16th best rush defense allowing just 104 yards per game. Scott Vallone and Charlie Noonan are solid in the middle of the line and the LB support is there too. There are no stars on this team on defense but everyone does what they are supposed to do. IN a year where West Virginia's offense has not been so good this game will be close and low scoring and come down to who forces the turnovers to win the game. Well in my opinion that has to be Rutgers who has forced 30 turnovers meanwhile on the year they have only turned the ball over 10 times. Along with that goes their red zone defense, well let's take a look they have only allowed opponents into the red zone 23 times all year. That's 2nd in the nation behind Alabama. That's impressive and this is a huge game for the Seniors on Sr. Day they would like nothing more to go out against a team they haven't beat in their great 4 years. It's not like Rutgers is getting blown out they have played close games including 2006's 41-39 triple OT game known as one of the best Big East games ever and 24-17 game last year. Rutgers finally gets one.
