Dana Holgorsen says hello with that video from Twitter.

9:30 am: Live from the press box above Mountaineer Field with some early notes from today’s game. Defensive lineman Josh Taylor is out today. Ryan Clarke is on the dress list after missing last week’s game with a stinger suffered eight days earlier against Syracuse. Trey Johnson, Mike Dorsey Cole Bowers are again out. Arthur Johannes, a 5-foot-11, 280-pound walk-on defensive lineman from Charleston’s George Washington is available, which is probably only noteworthy to those who know him. Good for him, though. It’s a reward for good practices.

9:35: WVU has owned the series against the Cardinals with a 10-2 record and a 5-1 mark since the Cardinals came to the Big East in 2005. The games have all been close, though. Don’t forget the last time Louisville was here Will Stein, the third-strong quarterback, had the ball in his hands on WVU’s half of the field on the final drive, but was undone by Julian Miller’s back-to-back sacks. Last season in Louisville, the Birds with Teeth led 10-7 after a defensive touchdown. The offense just stunk, though, and managed only 66 yards and four first downs the rest of the way while never getting more than four yards into WVU territory.

10:43: You better hope the Mountaineers set their alarms today. Louisville is really good in the fist quarter, outscoring teams 48-17 in the first 15 minutes and 21-0in winning the past two games. WVU? Not so good. Opponents outscore the Mountaineers 63-54 in the first two quarters. In the two losses, the Mountaineers have been outscored 20-3. WVU has been terrific in the third quarter, where it has a 103-37 edge. Louisville is being outscored 20-12 in the third quarter.

10:47: You Remember when Louisville punter Chris Philpott ran for 21 on a fake punt and had all but five of the team’s total rushing yards for the day. Well, he’s 2-for-2 on fake punts this season and has 48 yards and two first downs.

10:51: Louisville produces a tremendous pregame notes package. Great stuff about just about everything you could wonder about before, during and after a game. And then there’s this: “The Cardinals remain strong when scoring more than 20 points in a game and allowing fewer than 20 to their opponents.” Hold the phone!

10:56: Louisville Coach Charlie Strong recruited WVU running backs coach Robert Gillespie to Florida.

10:58: The Cardinals are really, really young. According to Phil Steele’s preseason magazine, only defending national champion Auburn entered the season with a more inexperienced team among the 120 in the FBS. Louisville might be younger now … if that makes sense. Seven true freshmen started two games ago against Rutgers, the most by any team in a game this season. Twenty-six players have played their first game this season, including 11 true freshmen. Ten of those 11 have started a game.

11:56: In my best Cal-Stanford voice, “… and the band is on the field …”

12:06: Louisville wins the toss. WVU will receive. Doug Rigg starting at weak side linebacker again with Jewone Snow in the middle and Najee Goode on the strong side.

12:09: JackBo reminds me, “I saw this team lose to Marshall — at home.”

12:10: Brad Starks has a knack for finding and hitting and getting through a crease. Saw it against UConn on his touchdown run last year. Have seen it a few times on kickoff returns now.

12:12: Wonderful throw and catch, but Starks underscores the value in special teams for WVU. Goes both ways. Sixty-two yard kickoff return helps chase a lot of those first-quarter demons.

12:14: Pat Miller starts at cornerback and comes in to make a tackle on the first play.

12:16: Long run on third-and-2 as Miller is removed from the play and Eain Smith takes a bad angle on a 55-yard run by converted quarterback Dominique Brown. It’s the longest run against WVU this season.

12:17: Jeremy Wright becomes the third running back to get a carry on the series and scores on an 8-yard run.

12:18: … or not. Review this one but not the Tavon TD?

12:20: The call on the field stands and the extra point makes it 7-7 after eight snaps and just 3:34. By the way, Louisville had 26 yards all game last year against WVU.

12:23: That was Louisville’s 17th trip into the end zone. Seventeen!

12:27: Weirdest delay of game. I’m more surprised Dana punted. Flips the field, though. Louisville has the ball at the 22 to start.

12:35: Bridgewater is (allowed to be) in a rhythm.Drops back, scans, throws. The 37-yard pass play is the third-longest against WVU this season and the second covering at least 35 in the past two games. And Ea Smith and Pat Miller are getting picked on on the left side of the field.

12:36: The touchdown comes from the fourth running back to get the ball, Senorise Perry.

12:38: Reviewing my calculations, two of the five longest gains WVU’s defense has allowed this season have come in the first quarter against a team that hasn’t been too good on offense.

12:40: You do NOT kick it to Brad Starks. And that’s an unnecessary hold by the return team.

12:43: Barclay may be WVU’s best lineman, but Madsen is the guy the Mountaineers can’t lose. He’s down and presumably out for a while. Starting left guard Jeff Braun is the backup center. Quinton Spain will play left guard, but Dana only wanted to play him on the right side.

12:44: And Shawne Alston runs off left guard for a nine-yard gain. Sure. Madsen returns after missing one play. Former high school drum major Greg Scruggs then sweeps around the right side and forces a fumble and a 10-yard loss. Eu steps forward on second-and-10 and underthrows Tavon on the left sideline. Tavon was 10 yards ahead of his defender, who recovered nicely. Third-down play gains 11 yards, but WVU punts again and this time it goes 12 yards. Bad sequence.

12:49: Big moment for Irvin. Can’t say I saw him on the field before here, but that’s a sack on second-and-8 and then another on third down, when Ted Bridgewater was looking for Irvin. Big swing. Fourth-and-23 … and Irvin now has 41/2 sacks this season.

12:54: After nine games, WVU is being outscored 77-61 in the first quarter.

12:58: And that is how the fade pattern is supposed to look. Game on now.

1:07: Took a while, but not as long as last week. Looks as though the defense is in the stadium now. Irvin’s two sacks preceded Louisville’s first three-and-out of the game. WVU will have the ball at its 35.

1:13: Running back screens have been rare this season, but they’ve worked pretty well today. New wrinkle added to the game plan this week.

1:18: Eu converts two third downs on the touchdown drive and gets help along the way as Devon Brown fights for the final yards on third-and-10 and Bailey makes amends for the drop earlier with a great reaching catch on third-and-5. Worth repeating, Louisville isn’t very good when it allows more than 20 points and scored fewer than 20.

1:20: Seven Nation Army …

1:22: Three sacks already for WVU and the pressure is bothering the quarterback and the protection. Louisville has been one of the worst in the country protecting its passer. Casteel has also fixed whatever was wrong on the left side, too.

1:24: Three straight punts and just 10 snaps and one first down for Louisville on the last three drives. Watch the fake here!

1:25: And the fake was on and it was going to work. Philpott needed just one yard and had the whole right side with which to work, but a flag fell for delay of game. Doh.

1:27: Starks gains 10 yards and I turn to Hertz and Dan Shrensky: “How about Brad Starks is now unstoppable?”  Starks is now laid out on the turf.

1:31: Molinari picks an awful time to top himself with an 11-yard effort. Louisville, which has done nothing on offense the last three drives, has a first-and-10 at its 44 with 1:42 to go in the half.

1:32: … 25-yard gain, 7-yard gain, 10-yard gain. First and-10 at the 13. Never fails.

1:35: Dana is watching this second-down play from his own 25 … literally as far away as he is allowed to be. Louisville gains nine yards and then Bridgewater ties the score with a 4-yard pass to Rogers. Unreal. Just not a very good team on special teams.

1:49: Louisville’s Anthony Connor is in the press box today. He’s wearing a neck brace, but is walking around, smiling, shaking hands, talking to people, all that stuff. Neat to see. I’d assume even Colin Dunlap would be OK with this.

1:52: Yikes. I knew he was having a day, but Ted Bridgewater is 12-for-13 for 149 yards. His only incomplete pass is one he threw away on that last series. Also, the Cardinals were averaging two red zone possessions per game. They have three today and three touchdowns.

2:00: Refresher: WVU has been terrific in the third quarter, where it has a 103-37 edge. Louisville is being outscored 20-12 in the third quarter.

2:01: First mistake by Bridgewater as he rolls right and throws back to the left and into a little traffic. The ball is tipped and there you are, Najee Goode, for your first second career interception (press box PA gave us bad information). Block in the back negates the return, but WVU gets the ball at the Louisville 40.

2:05: Apparently Starks is out for the game. No one has told us this.

2:08: Ty Urban is visibly upset. He was open twice on that possession. Ty Bitancurt is visible upset, too, after a missed 32-yard field goal. I’m serious, teams that are bad on special teams are usually bad in other areas. WVU doesn’t have that same label, but teams that are bad in special teams usually don’t  improve. WVU has that label. Bitancurt has now missed two extra points and a field goal since he was named a Groza semifinalist.

2:16: Really crazy this keeps happening. Tavon calls a fair catch, but he has to get up to that ball and field it. It’s a 10+ yard difference.

2:23: Buie loses a fumble at the 15 and Louisville takes a lead with a 39-yard field goal after drive that went three plays and lost seven yards. Devil’s Advocate: Tack on the yardage Tavon lost when he didn’t field the punt.

2:31: WVU tried to hurry up after the third down and before the fourth down and Alston tossed the ball over the official’s head. No problem with the decision to go for it there, but the play call lacked imagination and Louisville nailed it. And in truth, imagination isn’t the problem, either. If you can’t get block there to get a yard …

2:33: Jared Barber and Irvin both miss sacks.

2:34: Defensive showdown has broken pout at Mountaineer Field. And, man, did Louisville call the right play. throw was off, though.

2:43: Should have gone for it. Stunning swing and another bad special teams play. That wasn’t even close, either The guy was in front of the kick. And Ardian Bushell has played a pretty nice game today. I think the jury has reached a verdict.

2:47: Hertz: “Is West Virginia’s special teams handling the sound system too?”

3:06: Impressive counterstrike by Geno. I’ll tell you how this game ends after this possession. Louisville leads 31-28 with 8:53 to go.

3:08: That’s a big-time play by the quarterback and the receiver. That was actually just a fun football play. Good game!

3:10: Lots of Jared Barber at MLB today and this after Casteel was seen going after Jewone Snow earlier.

3:19: And after that drive, Louisville will win. Credit the Cardinals. They played it to win it there and that middle screen was a perfect call.