Well Mountaineers, what started out to be a great game and another step forward for the West Virginia football team died in a 2nd half collapse sending the 57,756 Mountaineer faithful home disappointed.

WVU was outscored 28-10 in the 2nd half with the Cowboys pulling away late turning a 28-24 game early in the 4th quarter into a 41-24 rout. Unfortunately, the OK State coaching staff made some halftime adjustments that the WVU coaches could not. The Cowboy coaches made adjustment to at least contain the Mountaineers 3 dynamic playmakers Michael Hawkins Jr, Cam Cook and D.J. Epps while also adjusting their offense to exploit or at least surprise the WVU defense to the tune of 28 2nd half points turning a 14-13 WVU halftime lead into a late rout.

I must say I'm a bit confused about the Oklahoma State Cowboys contiuned domanence of West Virginia football. The Cowboys are 8-2 against WVU in the last 10 contests and 9-4 overall. Even when WVU had high powered offenses with Will Grier and Gene Smith at quarterback the Mountaineers had trouble handling the Cowboys who for most of those seasons were coached by Mike Gundy.