COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Tony Gibson’s 3-3-5 defense succeeds primarily on deception, and now we know this for fact: It was deceiving us in mid-September.
We saw cracks and gaps and impending calamity. During back-to-back games when Youngstown State posted 405 yards and BYU awakened for 521, Gibson spewed apologies and languished in doubt. If an FCS offense could flip the field with chunk plays, how could West Virginia stand up against Big 12 surgical strikes? If Nana Kyeremeh’s fingertip provided the final margin of defense at FedEx Field, surely WVU had spent all its late-game magic in one swipe.