Last year, the red zone was more like the dead zone as far as touchdowns were concerned for the Mountaineers.
West Virginia had an 80.7-percent success rate for red zone scoring, but 13 of those successful red zone trips ended with field goals. Take away Mike Molina’s footwork, and the score rate dipped to 57.8 percent.
That was seventh in the Big 12 last year, ahead of just Texas, Kansas and TCU.
Texas Tech had the highest touchdown rate in the red zone at 73 percent, followed by Oklahoma’s 69.5 percent.
Five teams had red zone touchdown rates higher than 60 percent.