No. 9 Oklahoma and No. 14 West Virginia each entered Saturday night in the thick of the conference title race and still alive for the College Football Playoff. Unfortunately for Mountaineers fans, who were amped for one of the biggest games in Morgantown in recent memory, only one team showed up in the first half.
Aided by a bevy of mistakes and mental errors by their opponent, the Sooners jumped all over WVU at the start, leading 21–0 through one quarter. Linebacker Jordan Evans’s pick-six on the first drive of the second half, which made it 41–7, looked like it would seal it, but the Mountaineers made it interesting, lowering the deficit to 13 points with just over 10 minutes left.