Not sure if this is a big deal of if you can’t make a big enough deal out of it, but Curtis Feigt, who kind of saved the game Friday night, who will make his first career start Thursday at right tackle against one of the best defensive lines in the country, was with the scout team up until the day WVU started preparing for Cincinnati.

He was working with the opponent’s scout team. He was taking his orders from placards. He wasn’t doing anything WVU’s offensive line did. He hadn’t messed with that since spring practice, really. From then until just recently, he was the other team’s right tackle and he was supposed to be merely an obstacle for Bruce Irvin and Will Clarke and others up front for the Mountaineers.

Suddenly he was moved to give Pat Eger and Quinton Spain a push and now he’s with the first-team for a game WVU can’t lose if it wants to be in the BCS.

It was a “huge jump,” according to offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh. The scout team takes its cues from placards and the players are told where to go before every play. There’s no depth chart, either, and Feigt was getting 70 or more snaps every day.

Everything changed with the elevation. He wasn’t a first-team player, even if rolled in every now and then, and the practice reps were cut in half. There was no time off, though, and Feigt had to pay close, close attention to learn everything quickly.

Bedenbaugh felt Feigt was proven physically and ready mentally.

“He was a guy that was progressing,” he said. “You could watch him in 1-on-1 pass rush and see he was doing some good things. We felt like it was a good chance for him to come up and get started and get re-acclimated with what we’re doing.”