You are looking live at the debut Mountaineer Mantrip! Early notes from the press box including no Dustin Garrison today. He is not on the dress list. Ditto second-team cornerback Avery WIlliams, safety Matt Moro and linebacker Jewone Snow.

10:01 am: True freshmen on the dress list: Receiver Travares Copeland, quarterback Ford Childress, cornerback Nana Kyeremeh, safety Karl Joseph, safety K.J. Dillon, receiver Jordan Thompson, running back D’Vontis Arnold, cornerback Rick Rumph, linebacker Garrett Hope, defensive end Eric Kinsey, kicker/punter Josh Lambert, long snapper Josh DePalma, nose guard Christian Brown, defensife end Korey Haris and defensive end Noble Nwachukwu.

That’s 15. Fifteen! And yet my favorite number is Josh Lambert wearing 84.

That means the following freshmen are likely on track to redshirt or hurt: cornerback Brandon Napoleon, safety Jarrod Harper, offensive linemen Adam Pankey, Tyler Orlosky and Tony Matteo, receivers Devonte Mathis, Devonte Robinson and Will Johnson and defensive lineman Imarjaye Albury.

Note that junior college offensive lineman Mark Glowinsky is not dressed, either.

10:09: I thought it off there were two Devontes, plus one D’Vontis, on this team. There are actually two Nanas. One is Kyeremeh and one is Twum Agyire. A 6 foot, 190-pound redshirt freshman cornerback from Chevy Chase, Md., Nana Twum Agyire is this weeks’ defensive scout team champion.

I’ll have to assume Avery Williams is hurt or hurting, which putsMr. Kyeremeh on the field a bunch today.

10:14: Cody Clay, once a tight end at George Washington High and an inside receiver at WVU, is now a running back in the Ryan Clarke/Donovan Miles mold. He’s not going to carry it. He can block and he can run routes and motion to and from the slot and the backfield. Mobile part of the offense, though.

10:19: Game captains today: Eu, Joe Madsen, Tavon Austin, Will Clarke and Pat Miller. Perhaps you’re surprised about Miller’s inclusion, but if so you’ve clearly missed his leadership abilities. Madsen is an unquestioned warrior, though, and he cannot wait to play today.

Last season’s game was not to his liking.

10:47: The day’s other marquee matchup. It’s John Antonik v. Jack Bogaczyk.

10:53: Today might have the strangest broadcast crew ever. The play-by-play guy is Eric Crouch, who won the Heisman and the Davey O’Brien award in 2001, back when Nebraska was Nebraska. And then there’s Justin Kutcher, who, thanks to overtheSEC, I can tell you has no less impressive a background. Per his Maxx Sports Entertainment bio: Justin’s breakthrough television appearance came at the age of 12, when he was a contestant on “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?”

11:00: Source: Avery Williams is day to day and “today is not one of those days.”

11:08: Note that likely I will find interesting: FX is currently showing Armageddon. I’m serious.

11:10: WVU last lost a season-opener in 2003 at home against Wisconsin. That’s the infamous fan-thr0ws-a-beer-at-Rasheed-Marshall-afterward game. Marshall’s last season-opening win was in 2009 against Southern Illinois. But since we’re all West Virginia today, we’re all FBS. Marshall’s last season-opening win against a FBS team was in 1999 against … wait for it .. Clemson!

11:17: I suppose Marshall’s offense is a bit of a mystery, but the defense, led capably by Chris Rippon, is more known.

11:21: Someone’s going to make a big deal out of this, but there was a small, expected confrontation among the teams as Marshall exited its tunnel and WVU, already on the field, sort of floated toward Marshall. Lots of hopping and hollering, and Geno did insert himself into the thick of it. He was quickly surrounded by Marshall players, disappeared from sight for a few seconds, and then skipped out. I’d call it tame, but someone will lead a column with it. Lock of the day … because, you know, it’s never happened before.

11:43: Video tributes to the late Jim Carlen and Bill Stewart. Carlen’s was video clips of his coaching days over top a panelist appearance he made last fall. Stewart’s famous locker room speech is the frame of his tribute with various videos and photos of him in action. Nice applause for both men.

11:52: “The band is on the field!” Meanwhile, catch Geno talking about how excited he is to see Geno.

11:55: So Marshall returned somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,100 tickets for the game. News to Doc Holiday.

“For anybody to say there’s not interest in that game, they’re kidding themselves,” Holliday said. “I’ve had so many dadgum calls for tickets, I’d have probably sold out half of whatever they got left.”

11:58: Hey! Ivan McCartney has finally beaten out Ryan Nehlen. He’s backing up J.D. Woods.

Noon: TFGD.

12:02: Marching band showed up, huh?

12:04: When the series started in 2006, P-Rod, Mark Snyder and Gov. Manchin met at midfield for the coin toss. The Product had four state troopers with him. Manchin had two.

12:05: Marshall wins the toss and receives. Quack, quack.

12:06: Corey Smith with the touchback. He told me he could get it past the letters.

12:10: Will Clarke blew up a run play on second down and Isaiah Bruce cleaned it up for an eight-yard loss. Bruce started, by the way, and kindasorta lived up to Shawne Alston’s prophesy.

12:11: Nothing Tavon could do about that punt. They kept it away and it rolled. First-and-10 at the 6. First play of the season is from under center and it’s a reverse to Tavon.

12:16: Tavon, Thompson, Buie, Alston and finally Stedman touch the ball on the drive and Secret Weapon Bailey ends it with a 32-yard touchdown when he used time and space perfectly to beat corerback Keith Baxter at the back of the end zone. Nine plays, 94 yards, gains of 6, 6, 10, 8, 9, -2, 9, 1 and 32 yards. Neat.

12:17: And then Ty Bitancurt yacks the PAT. He was 61 for 63 in 2011.

12:23: Jeff Mullen inspired punt. Lots of motion and then a delay of game. Awesome.

12:27: Fantastic. Delay of game out of a TV timeout.

12:29: I can’t get over how wide WVU’s splits are between the center and the guards. And that long-side throw by Geno is impressive and significant. He’s got the length on that now, which means WVU could conceivable space out ids outside receivers even farther and create more space as this season progresses.

12:30: That was perhaps too open for Geno. Easy TD pass to Bailey and he missed it, but Alston bails him out for a three-yard touchdown run. It’s 13-0. Seventeen snaps, 161 yards, 13 points. That’s 9.8 yards per snap with that bad miss by Geno and a three-yard TD run. Yeesh.

12:34: Also, no fade near the end zone there. Big fan of that development.

12:35: Corey Smith either didn’t hit that one right or didn’t want to and it didn’t go more than a yard deep into the end zone. The coverage team still makes the tackle at the 19. Save Bitancurt’s miss, this is a perfect start for WVU.

2:26: Embarrassing two-hour internet outage at the home office. I’ll contribute, as can.

2:38: Took a moment, but the fans realized that was Isaiah Bruce. Isaiah Bruuuuuce. Hey, we’re having that sportsmanship conversation in the third quarter. I mean, 70 could come fast here.

2:50: Seems to be Brodrick Jenkins hasn’t played much lately. I’ve had my head down writing for a bit, but I haven’t seem him.

2:51: I stopped trying to figure out what Marshall is doing on kickoffs, but Buie has been terrific today.

2:54: So, too, has Woods. He’s better than McCartney, who, I think, has dropped one pass and probably could have done better on another. I mean, done better like Woods did when be bobbled one and caught it as he was falling to the ground.

2:56: McCartney. He’s good!

2:57: Fade. It’s good.

2:57: Pretty sure they’re reading my blog on the sideline. Hi, Shannon!

3:05: Um, 69-20 with 13:04 left. WVU has 644 yards. Thirty-one more breaks the school record. That one’s 89 years old. But for  moment, soak in that Paul Millard threw a fade pass TD to K.J. Myers in the final Coal Bowl.

3:38: Well, that was … interesting. Paul Millard comes out chucking and it’s picked off after Myers bobbles the ball.

3:17: This is going to become a storyline, but Cato is 31-for-44 for 339 yards and has only been sacked once and hurried twice.

3:19: Curtis Feigt at RT and Nick Kindler at RT.

3:22: Millard didn’t look too good there and here comes the most exciting thing WVU does…a punt!

3:25: K.J. Dillon is in the game …

6:29: Shameful performance by the home office today. Same computer issues that derailed us for about a week over the summer struck today. Timely. Useful. They fixed it quicker this time, but it was still terrible. Nevertheless, here’s the early game story as well as the notebook.