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Texas Football: 3 takeaways from near upset loss to West Virginia

DeMarvion Overshown, Texas Football (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)

Another game where the Texas football program escaped a loss saw the team come through when they needed to beat West Virginia on Nov. 7.

It was another close one for fourth-year Texas football head coach Tom Herman on the late morning/afternoon of Nov. 7 in taking on second-year head coach Neal Brown and the West Virginia Mountaineers at home at DKR. Texas needed a win to keep their momentum going in the right direction heading into the bye week.

And the Longhorns came into this game with a record of 4-2 (3-2 Big 12) after pulling off the big upset of the previously undefeated and No.