The Stanford Cardinal and Washington State Cougars clash Saturday in a week 10 Pac-12 college football game from Stanford Stadium.
The Washington State Cougars will try to snap a three-game losing skid, falling to 4-4 on the year with a 21-17 loss to Utah last time out. Cameron Ward has thrown for 2,184 yards, 17 touchdowns and 8 interceptions on 65.6% passing while Nakia Watson has a team-high 325 rushing yards and Jaylen Jenkins has 306 rushing yards as well this season. De’Zhaun Stribling leads the Cougars in receiving with 429 receiving yards and 5 touchdown grabs while Robert Ferrel has 365 receiving yards and Donovan Ollie has a team-high 34 catches for 364 yards. On defense, Daiyan Henley has a team-high 80 total tackles including 36 solo tackles along with 4 sacks as well.
The Stanford Cardinal will hope to bounce back from a 38-13 loss to UCLA, sitting at 3-5 on the year as a result. Tanner McKee has thrown for 1,972 yards, 11 touchdowns and 7 interceptions on 61.2% passing while Casey Filkins has a team-high 478 rushing yards with 4 scores and E.J. Smith has 206 rushing yards with 3 TDs as well. Michael Wilson leads Stanford with 418 yards and 4 receiving touchdowns while Elijah Higgins has a team-high 31 catches for 376 yards as well this season. Brycen Tremaine has 316 receiving yards while Benjamin Yurosek, John Humphreys and the aforementioned Filkins each have 200+ receiving yards as well on the year. On defense, Levani Damuni has a team-high 52 total tackles while Stephen Herron has a team-high 5.5 sacks as part of Stanford’s 20 sacks as a unit this season.
Washington State is 13-5 ATS in their last 18 games overall and 10-3 ATS in their last 13 conference games while the under is 4-0 in their last 4 games overall. Stanford is 8-21-1 ATS in their last 30 games overall and 1-7 ATS in their last 8 home games while the over is 21-7 in their last 28 games following a loss.
I get the case to be made for either side here, but I’m backing the under here. Neither team has been all that good offensively over the last month and I really don’t expect that to change here. Both of these teams have been averaging around 14 PPG over their last three games, and this just feels like a 17-14 kind of game whichever way you have it going. Give me the under here.