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Unlikely win shows Mountaineers mettle and what may be to come

COMMENTARY

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — College football wouldn’t have reached the ripe old age of 150 years without providing a weekly reminder that it is crazy.

No one would have expected Maryland to be the nation’s most explosive offense for the first two weeks, just as no one would have predicted the Terps to come grinding to a halt at Temple in Week 3. With the talent West Virginia had returning at running back, few could have predicted the Mountaineers would be last in the nation running the ball through two weeks. And once that had been established, even fewer folks would have tabbed a breakout against one of the two defenses in the country that had yet to surrender a touchdown.