A few things about Marshall:

– For the second straight season, the team is two games above .500 entering the WVU game.

– MU has won back-to-back road games for the first time under Mark Snyder.

– The 31-10 victory at Tulane as the most lopsided C-USA game since 2006 and the biggest winning margin ever in a C-USA road game.

– Kicker Craig Ratanamorn is 23-for-23 this season — seven Fgs, 16 PATs.

– Defensive end Albert McClellan, the 2006 C-USA defensive player of the year, is healthy again.

– Marshall has one of the nation’s very worst pass offenses — that has as much to do with Darius Marshall as it does Brian Anderson — but had success against the Green Wave.

– Mark Snyder has trouble with the “swinging gate.”

On this particular play, the Green Wave not only resorted to the trickery, but it caught Marshall’s defense in the middle of a substitution and communication of the play. Barely able to react to the snap, Herd defenders were easily sucked into the fake handoff left, allowing receiver Jordan Sullen a free 32-yard trip to the end zone around the right end

“I’m 0-2 against Coach Toledo now,” Snyder said. “In 2002, he ran the swinging gate for a touchdown when he was at UCLA. Today, he comes and runs a swinging gate with a reverse coming off of it. So I am 0-2 on that play.”

“I talked to Mark after the game – as I told you, when he was at Ohio State, we [at UCLA] ran the ol’ swinging gate on him and ran it for a touchdown,” Toledo said. “And he told me, ‘Doggone you, Toledo, you got me again on that one.’ Because we let him see the swinging gate and then ran a reverse on them. All 11 of their guys were on that side of the field.”