LUBBOCK, Texas — West Virginia’s offense hasn’t approached Dana Holgorsen’s 42 points-per-game benchmark. Its best defensive player blew out a knee during camp. Its left tackle blew out a knee in Game 1, and its biggest special-teams weapon didn’t stick around for Senior Day.
Yet, the Mountaineers reached mid-October among 11 unbeatens in the FBS.
With two byes already in the rear-view mirror, No. 20 West Virginia (4-0, 1-0) begins a meaty eight-week stretch of Big 12 pugilism when it tangles with Texas Tech (3-2, 1-1) on Saturday, the season’s first road game which we’ll deconstruct in today’s version of Four-Down Territory: