Washington State vs Oregon Betting Preview
Washington State comes into game off a bye week and sitting with a 5-4 overall record. They have one goal in mind for this game and that will be knocking these Oregon Ducks out of College Football Playoff contention.
In their last game back in Week 9, they went into Sun Devil stadium as a 16 point underdog and got the big upset, 34-21 against Arizona State. Quarterback Jayden de Laura will look to duplicate that performance to lead his team to another upset, but doing something like that twice in a row will be an extremely tough challenge get done.
The good news is that Jayden De Laura leads the Pac-12 this season with 17 touchdown passes and he’s currently second in passing yards per game with an average of 246 yards per game.
Wide Receiver Calvin Jackson Jr. is coming off a monster game against Arizona State and look for him to put up another 100 plus yard performance in this matchup.
On the road this season, the Cougars have the 10th best defense in the nation that’s only giving up an average of 17 points per game and fifth in the country with 20 takeaways.
On the road on offense, they are scoring an average of 22.7 points per game. Washington State is 10-1 against the spread in their last 11 games against Oregon and the total has gone under in 5 of the Cougars last 7 games.
Oregon comes into this game ranked third in the nation after winning their last four in a row. They are now 8-1 overall and 5-1 in conference play with their only loss to Stanford in overtime back in week 5.
Last Saturday on the road, they took care of business and got the 26-16 win against the Washington Huskies. They put up 329 rushing yards against the Huskies with Travis Dye dropping a whooping 211 yards.
Washington State’s rush defense is giving up an average of 170 yards per game, which isn’t anything to brag about, so Oregon’s backfield should have another great day of stats for this matchup.
At home this season, the Ducks have the 23rd best offense in the nation who’s scoring up an average of 37 points per game, while their defense is giving up an average of 22.2 points per game.
Oregon is 4-10 against the spread in their last 14 games and the total has gone over in 13 of the Ducks last 18 games against the Cougars.
