One of the most difficult things to do in baseball is string together three straight hits to score a run. Lately, Dana Holgorsen’s West Virginia University offense has been required to do football’s equivalent of that in order to cross the goal line.
The Mountaineers (6-1, 3-1) are averaging 31.1 points per game, which is okay in the high-scoring Big 12, but they are having to get their points the hard way - by driving the length of the field.
Twenty of the 26 touchdowns West Virginia has tallied so far this year have been on scoring drives of at least five plays or more, and seven of those have been of the 10-play-or-more, length-of-the-field variety.