Interesting point to consider this week: LSU is going to run and run and then run some more and WVU’s defense is going to have to play fast and physical to combat LSU’s size and style. These are big backs, big fullbacks and big linemen for the Tigers and anything less than the Mountaineers flying around and hitting people with force and frequency won’t cut it.

And then there are those two bogus (editorializing!) penalties against WVU in the Maryland game. Those unnecessary roughness calls are aimed to curb the aggression and the physicality, even if hits and habits like that will be necessary for the Mountaineers against LSU. It must be legal, of course, but it must be present.

Fortunately for WVU, neither of the College Park “offenders” are swayed by the penalties.

“If I had another opportunity to make the same play, I’d probably do the same thing again,” Goode said. “As a defense, you have to go out there and play with energy and want to make hard hits and want to make big plays.

“When you’re playing a team like LSU, if the same situation comes up, the best thing I can do is make the same play.”