COLUMBIA, MO. • Season-opening games can be mysteries, especially when one team has a new coaching staff, but West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen is no stranger to Missouri’s two new coordinators, Josh Heupel (offense) and DeMontie Cross (defense).
Holgorsen coached against Heupel for years in the Big 12 when Heupel was an offensive assistant at Oklahoma and Holgorsen coached at Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. For the last three years, Cross was linebackers coach at TCU, which joined the Big 12 the same times as West Virginia four years ago.