MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — While West Virginia must deter what Dana Holgorsen calls the “human instinct to relax” after winning back-to-back games, how much deprogramming must be done to take seriously a team like Kansas that hasn’t won any?
“We’ve got to be on guard for that,” Holgorsen admitted Tuesday, reprising the kind of speech seven previous Big 12 coaches have given this season.
Kansas has been outscored 336-94 in its league games this fall, which somehow makes an 0-7 record in the conference sound even worse. The Jayhawks’ best shot at winning expired in comical fashion on opening weekend, a flubbed spike in field-goal range ending their 41-38 loss to FCS South Dakota State.