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Set your alarms

Fun day today. Bill Stewart is decoded later this morning and Colin Dunlap punts a hornet’s nest after that.

How about some fun tomorrow? Another live chat rolls through town at 2 p.m. tomorrow and, as always, you can follow this link to either participate then or drop your questions in the queue now.

Meantime, wrap your minds around the relative rarity of a matchup like UNLV at WVU. The Rebels haven’t played in the Eastern Time Zone since 2004 and haven’t been this close to the Atlantic Ocean since 1972. WVU doesn’t have much experience against the left quarter of the country, either.

WVU HASN’T played host to a team that traveled from the Pacific Time Zone to Morgantown since beating Eastern Washington 52-3 in 2006. No other team had made the cross country trip since 1988, when Cal State Fullerton was a 45-10 loser.

The Mountaineers are 3-2 all-time against teams coming from the Pacific Time Zone to Morgantown and 1-5 going west to east – plus a loss at Hawaii, another two hours behind, in 1980.