Here we are. Five wins, zero losses and the national spotlight starting to circle Morgantown. This feels so much like 2014. In 2014, he Mountaineers had given the Alabama Crimson Tide a real game. You have to go back to 2009, when the Tide played Virginia Tech, to find the first game of the season where the Tide only won by 10.
In 2014, riding a confident defense under first-year coordinator Tony Gibson, the West Virginia Mountaineers stepped onto the field against the #4 Baylor Bears wearing blue helmets, blue jerseys and white pants. The Mountaineers proceeded to do something that no one had done to Baylor that year.