GAME THREAD West Virginia football at UCF
- Thread starter Keenan Cummings
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Is this our first b12 game east of the Mississippi? It's welcomed for sure. Don't know much about UCF but the way they played last week looks tough.
Hershey McLaurin is out
Tomas Rimac is back and expected to start
Hudson Clement is doubtful
Jairo Faverus is out
Just once it would be nice to see them come together. Maybe they're saving it for Oklahoma? lol
I commented earlier on our average margin of victory in wins under NB. Outside of FCS games, we seldom win by more than a TD and almost never by more than 10-12.
Outside of a Kansas State and TCU games in 2020 and Va Tech last year, blowouts have been nonexistent
NC State 2019
KSU, KANSAS, TCU 2020
VT, in 2022 (TCU by 12)
Pitt by 11 points for 2023 is the largest margin.
it's not by how much you win by but how many wins you get.
I just meant we have hardly put the pedal to the medal on both sides of the ball at the same time to win games convincingly.
And we aren’t getting enough wins on top of that.
But when you are only barely edging past bad to average teams for your wins, it usually means you never upset the really good teams nor do much better than .500 for the season.
Oh the ole "4D chess" argument when someone you support is obviously doing something stupid and/or incompetent. We'll know who the morons are based upon who buys it.
How many Blowouts all time has WVU had over 10-12? What is considered a blowout?
Don Nehlen had 49 games with wins of 15 or more points against what is currently considered P5 teams.
Rod had 20
Stewart had 6
Holgs had 18
Neal Brown has 5
How many times have we been blown out? This is why he's a .500 coach or just under it. He coaches to not lose especially when he gets the lead.
By comparison, Rod was here 7 years, Stew 3 and Holgs 8.
Neal is in year 5……he’s not pacing himself well.
By comparison, Brown has 13 losses of 15 or more points in his time year, and another 5 by 11-14 (our agree to throw out the Kansas game because the margin of victory was based on a useless pick 6 in OT)
But good teams will still beat bad to average teams handily even when playing conservatively to preserve the lead. See what OSU did to us last week. My point is Brown fields below average teams and the fact that he cannot win many games going away against very beatable competition is a sign that the trend isn't changing. That is why I never subscribe to the reductive "a win is a win" idea, especially early in the season as ugly wins usually portend blow out losses to good teams and missed opportunities against beatable teams. See the 2014 opening struggle against William & Mary for a single score win and how the rest of that season went for an example.
Well......the Big 12 needed someone to be a "PItt" for WVU. Here we go. Make claims of national championships, and let it ride.