“It’s college football,” West Virginia defensive coordinator Tony Gibson said. “Alabama, everybody talks about how great they are, well, they play a spread team like Ole Miss and give up 500 yards and 40-some points (522 yards and 43 points, for the record). It’s just college football right now.”
A bar graph depicting West Virginia’s defensive performance so far this year would be similar to what you typically see from the stock market in October - up, down, up and down.
It was up in the season opener against Missouri despite allowing 462 yards to the Tigers because a lot of that came when the outcome was already decided.