COMMENTARY
FORT WORTH, Texas — In the town “Where the West Begins,” the Mountaineers were grateful to see October end.
During Thursday night’s 40-10 loss, a familiar road refrain repeated itself: West Virginia unable to match No. 5 TCU and unable to stop the month-long hemorrhaging. Through four losses against the Big 12’s top teams, the Mountaineers were outscored 179-98.
The fact these guys spent a week in the actual Top 25 stands as irrefutable proof that polls and coin flips are first cousins.
Wendell Smallwood reflected on the 33-day drought since West Virginia last won a football game and said “I couldn’t have imagined this.