MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Gold & Blue Lunch Report typically hates Mondays, but football season is different, because we rewatch the Mountaineers’ game to take stock of the ups-and-downs. Watch to see who was rising and falling after West Virginia downed Missouri 26-11.
Dana Holgorsen gave the retooled defense sterling marks for holding the Tigers out of the end zone until garbage time.
“They looked like the same defense that I’ve been going against the last five weeks,” Holgorsen said Monday. “I never doubted our guys. It’s the third year in the defense we currently have with Tony Gibson, who is asserting himself as one of the top defensive coordinators in the country.