The Mountaineers limped into bye week as a beat-up, underachieving 2-4 football team. Coming off a long-awaited road win in Fort Worth and a home upset of a ranked Iowa State team, the Mountaineers find themselves on an entirely different trajectory. Many of the issues that plagued WVU in the first half of the season have been cleaned up and the Mountaineers are playing with a new swagger about them. What impressed me the most about Saturday’s game was how well the Mountaineers absorbed the big blows that the Cyclones threw and kept fighting. There were two early explosive touchdowns, a wildly unlucky tipped interception, and a questionable offensive PI call that led to a next-play pick-six; after each of these, the Mountaineers could have rolled over and decided that it just wasn’t their day.
The Sober Mid-Week Stats Review: Taking a look at the numbers behind West Virginia’s momentum building win over Iowa State
