Maybe this should have been an omen. The wireless network inside Auburn’s press box is named — I kid you not — “tsunami.” Apparently “torrentialfreakingdownpour” would have been too many characters.

Or too ironic.

The rain began at 7:15 p.m. and West Virginia immediately went into a field-goal drill. Cody Nutter, Jeremy Kash and Tyler Bitancurt handled four snap-hold-kicks without incident. Four minutes later the stadium announcer at Jordan-Hare Stadium kindly requested everyone leave — “seek shelter” — and wait out a weather delay. From the press box, you could barely see across the stadium.

A few people left right away, but most of the crowd stayed put and has been rocking and rolling throughout this weird 30-minutes-after-we-detect-lightning delay.

Credit Auburn for being on point. We went from “seek shelter” to CCR’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain” and then Eddie Rabbit’s “I love a Rainy Night.” And what would a asporting event be without Gary Glitter and, of course, Bon Jovi?

(7:52 p.m. … there’s another flash and another 30 minutes. Oh, and hello, Mr. Thunder. Where have you been? At least he knows how to make an entry. Garth Brooks and “Thunder Rolls” just started. I’m having a blast.)

As best as I or anyone else here can tell, it was the most sustained heavy rain we’ve ever witnessed. (8:03, more lightning) We’re at about 50 minutes of a rain and the first 30 of it was a consistent flow of sheets of rain. The field was a mess, but looks as good as you could possibly hope for now.