Interesting admission from Dana Holgorsen, who allowed a moment of retrospect late in his first season. This offense you’re seeing at WVU, the one you thought would so closely resemble what he’d done at Houston and Oklahoma State, is not really what he’d done at Houston and Oklahoma State.

For a time, it trended in that direction, but Holgorsen has since pulled back to get a better control of how the Mountaineers move the football.

“I’ve changed quite a bit in what the play calling is and how fast it gets done and the amount of plays that we’re running,” he said. “All that stuff is a little different than what I’ve been used to.”

He said his first season with the Mountaineers is not like what it was with the Cougars and Cowboys, but like it was when he joined the Texas Tech staff in 2000.

Houston Coach Kevin Sumlin wanted Holgorsen to run his offense, but to hurry it up as much as possible. Oklahoma State Coach Mike Gundy then wanted to have what Holgorsen did at Houston.

“The (previous) philosophies offensively at Houston and Oklahoma State were similar,” Holgorsen said. “There were guys that were used to doing things similar to how we run them. The personnel was in place to where we could handle that.

“We’re not there offensively. It goes back to Texas Tech when we were changing a lot of philosophies and changing the way things were done offensively.”