Sometimes you have to find a little inspiration when you’re writing about college football betting—particularly a game in which BYU is favored by more than four touchdowns.
Thankfully, this game falls on October 31, so I’m rolling out every bit of Halloween horror that I can muster.
Thus, may I present to you our best college football free picks and predictions for Western Kentucky at No. 10 BYU, a deliciously frightful affair on All Hallows Eve in Provo, Utah, with kickoff beginning as the clock strikes 10:00 ET. You can already see how this is going to work.
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at BYU Cougars betting preview
Weather
Many a shiver will travel down your spine on this splendidly dark evening, with a perfectly bone-chilling temperature of 34 degrees and a delightfully devious wind out of the east at 6 mph, delivering the wonderful stench of every dead body within miles of LaVell Edwards Stadium. Be sure to monitor the gametime conditions with our NCAA football weather info.
Key Injuries
Western Kentucky: Dalvin Smith TE (Out).
BYU: Ben Bywater LB (Out), Tyler Batty DL (Questionable), Keenan Pili LB (Questionable), Shamon Willis DB (Questionable), James Empey OL (Questionable), Tristen Hoge OL (Questionable), Keanu Saleapaga OL (Questionable), Gunner Romney WR (Questionable).
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Betting trend to know
The Hilltoppers are 0-7-1 ATS in their last eight games overall. Find more NCAA football betting trends for Western Kentucky vs. BYU.
Against the spread (ATS) pick
On the Hilltops of Western Kentucky once roamed a football team known throughout the land. And though they intended to devastate those that dared to encounter them, they were not worth a bag of old bones, winning only two games by a total of six points and averaging only 17.7 points per game, the likes of which could easily be scored by skeletons alone.
I’ve not known many spirits as strong and intimidating as Brigham Young, his powerful aura cleansing the disappointments of years past and summoning those who might once again help his mighty football team, the Cougars, curse those who dare to cross it.
Zach Wilson is the Grim Reaper of all college quarterbacks, as evidenced by his slinging a freshly slain pigskin as easily as an oracle glides across a Ouija board to send unworthy souls into eternal damnation. His 16 touchdowns are worthy of your worship and your blood.
BYU has every intention of adding Western Kentucky to its own personal graveyard, and I gleefully welcome the pain and suffering that the Hilltoppers shall soon endure.
PREDICTION: BYU -28.5 (-110)
Over/Under pick
The Over is 3-0-1 in BYU’s last four games against teams with a losing record.
And I can think of no bigger loser than a Western Kentucky team that will watch as Mr. Young’s mighty soldiers of the dark lay heavy tombstones over the very graves that the Hilltoppers will have been forced to dig themselves AHAHAHAHAHA.
PREDICTION: Over 52.2 (-110)
Team total pick
I smile as I think about the Cougars scoring point after painful point, the foolish souls of the men from Western Kentucky pleading and begging for the scoring to stop—only to realize that this proverbial knife that cuts into their very defense must be endured for eternity.
PREDICTION: BYU team total Over 40.5 (-115)
Western Kentucky vs BYU betting card
- BYU -28.5 (-110)
- Over 52.2 (-110)
- BYU team total Over 40.5 (-115)
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