Can’t argue with that. It’s going to be a long week for WVU and Dana Holgorsen because there is no game this Saturday and what happened this past Saturday is the sort of thing the Mountaineers want and need to flush out of their system.

Baylor is a better team and the Bears are going to be bad news for a lot of teams on a lot of nights. I think WVU took some solace in that and understands a good team had a great night at WVU’s expense.

“I said weeks ago Baylor has the best tempo and the best team, and they turned it up even more here,” the senior nose guard said. “I can’t give those guys enough credit. I know they’re going to win the Big 12. Nobody’s going to beat those guys.”

Rowell was among the handful of Mountaineers who were consistently pushed back by Baylor’s massive offensive line, which started players who weighed 310, 330, 295, 340 and 315 pounds.

“Those guys were great,” Rowell said. “I’m not going to sit here and make excuses for anybody, including myself. I got blown off the ball a few times.”

But that humility is fleeting. Humiliation is not. That one’s going to leave a mark, as it should, but I guess the next two weeks will provide many other diversions and give us plenty of other things to talk and think about, and that might change the talking points just a little bit.

It can’t be a bad time for WVU to have a week off for the first time this season. That’s a team that’s quietly and proudly been wheezing in certain spots for a few games now, so rest and recuperation will help. But this is also a team that needs to figure out a few things, like why it can’t run the ball, how to complete vertical passes, why the coach and the quarterback can’t communicate, how to keep that from affecting the game and if the defense is — well, what is this defense?

Yes, Baylor is going to make teams look bad, but the Bears did it the way they wanted to do it in the areas WVU sought to guard the most. And if you had concerns about WVU’s improved defense, I have to think your concerns were validated quite often in Waco. It started bad right away and got worse … actually, it got worse right away, too.

The Mountaineers, who a week earlier won at home against then-No. 11 Oklahoma State and held its formidable offense to 21 points, let Baylor set the Big 12 record for total offense and erase the 807-yard mark WVU set last year in a 70-63 win against the Bears.

That 2012 game set the tone for the worst defensive season in school history. This game at least made WVU wonder what was real.

“The reality is we just came out and laid an egg,” said safety Darwin Cook, who had an interception and scored a touchdown off teammate Travis Bell’s interception and lateral in the fourth quarter. “I didn’t think we were too high on ourselves. There was nothing like that in the way we practiced and the way we prepared. There wasn’t a hangover from the Oklahoma State game.”

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life.  Somewhere a queen is weeping. Somewhere a king has no wife. And the wind, it cries T.F.G.D.

My edits are in [brackets].

12:36:
If WVU beats Baylor then Oklahoma’s players would have to throw games in order not to win the conference.

8:02:
#FearTheTarp

8:02:
Buck Faylor

8:03:
Lache DanceLikeI’mdrunk

8:03:
120 seconds in and I can already tell there’s gonna be a lot of comments about these announcers..

8:06:
Otoole…kicking off….interestibg

8:06:
God. O’Toole kicking off with a damn wind at his back makes me certain we’ll see an onsides kick tonight. 500G!

8:07:
I thought Molinari was like the one good thing  eFore  had done right.

8:08:
Just like old times…

8:08:
Yay, craptastic coverage.

8:08:
Wider than the widest, let the deepest run by you. WVU secondary.

8:09:
Hit reset, Dana

8:09:
Well. It did take Baylor 40 seconds to score

8:10:
Babies … before we’re done here … y’all be wearing gold-plated diapers

8:10:
Is it the worst cover three ever if one person forgot it was cover three?

8:13:
Blind Squirrel Day!

8:13:
Nick O’Toole’s our best offensive player

8:13:
Talk about special teams

8:13:
Hooray special teams!

8:13:
Ask me about punts … punts.

8:13:
What???!!! Poorer decision making than our dude?

8:13:
There’s our first ST break!!! Holy god

8:13:
O’Toole for quarterback

8:15:
Did DeForest get hired to coach Baylor’s special teams and we missed it?

8:17:
I’m gonna celebrate the [stuffing] out of that TD because I’ve got a feeling tonight’s gonna be a bad night.

8:17:
We will find out later this week that Benedict DeFo secretly gave tips to Baylor special teams

8:21:
Tonight’s gonna be a bad night.

8:23:
Baylor? Hot knife. WV? Butter.

8:28:
Great return but FWIW I think Smallwood is still running if he turns that up the middle.

8:29:
Baylor does what I always thought RichRod was trying to do.

8:30:
Who’s qb number four?

8:31:
Great call Dana

8:31:
What the [Parliament Funkadelic] was THAT?!

8:31:
This is a really poorly coached blocking team at all positions. No fundamental concepts or awareness of defensive scheme

8:31:
I think the wind is keeping the O-Line from making forward movement.

8:31:
Good Lord, our offensive line sucks [aggressively].

8:32:
Should have let O’Toole punt for a touchdown.

8:32:
[Baloney] like that call right there is why I jumped off the Dana bandwagon a long time ago.

8:34:
The good news is that I still have 11 beers left…

8:34:
I mean, if they’re doing that….

8:34:
Listening to it in car, almost wrecked car with that 47 hr bomb. Texting at red light.

8:35:
They may score 133 pts by themselves….that was a hellva play

8:35:
Baylor is going to drop a c note on us. Maybe by halftime

8:37:
(Jaw on floor)

8:38:
The dirndl I’m wearing has better coverage than wvu.

8:38:
Regarding my prior comment referencing hot knife/ butter. I owe butter an apology.

8:40:
Trickett must suck at charades

8:42:
Big 12 refs have their orders. Texas and whoever is higher ranked must win. Ridiculous no call PI

8:43:
And pick a [football] quarterback you wishy washy jerk.

8:44:
Oklahoma State must really suck.

8:44:
[Criminy] they’re good.

8:44:
Check, please.

8:45:
I’d [friend] Baylor

8:47:
Ohmygod I hate Walkthrough Wednesday.

8:46:
Baylor’s scoring faster than Charlie Sheen on speed at a nymphomaniac convention.

8:48:
Clint Flick It

8:49:
Yes. Lets keep heaving it deep because that has worked.

8:50:
Our best offense may be throwing deep 4 times and getting pass interference calls

8:50:
Deep Chucks. What the [flick]?

8:54:
I don’t know if Holgorsen will be able to say Baylor strained their bodies more than WVU bc it doesn’t look like they’re straining at all.

8:55:
If Baylor’s punter is on scholarship, it’s highway robbery.

9:01:
Another nationally televised embarrassment. But things are trending up…

9:04:
Geno Smith thinks he could make a few plays (even in the wind) against this Baylor defense.

9:05:
Dwight: “Gotta hold em to a field goal here Tony!”

9:07:
Dwight: “We gotta get some first downs here Tony there’s 3 quarters left we can get right back in this thing.”

9:10:
With 1244 left in second, and Baylor already at 35, they could score 100 tonight if they want. This is not exaggerated.

9:13:
The Baylor offense should win the Nobel Prize for Mathematics

9:20:
Clint Heave It

9:20:
Look at them going for tricksy’s shoulder.

9:20:
Clint Flick It Deep to no one

9:29:
#teamavertyoureyes

9:30:
Copious amounts of dark liquor.

9:33:
Poor, poor Dana. You can only say que peña.
-A

9:34:
Who’s the 4th option? What’s Brian athey up to?

9:35:
Even on a TD Trickett takes a nut shot

9:35:
What is this touchdown you speak of?

9:35:
Maybe mike perriera can go over the finer points of the mercy rule in college football

9:37:
Trickett won’t be able to make a baby now (that was an intentional kick to the nuts)

9:41:
And that’s the way the Cookie doesn’t crumble

9:41:
Yes. It is his job to tackle the person with the ball. Go [thank] yourselves.

9:42:
Oh, he gets to stay? Awesome. Go [thank] yourselves, anyway.

9:42:
Kinda wish Cook targeted in the first possession.

9:42:
#teammakeitstop

9:45:
At this point if Petty stays in you just play to take out his knees

9:47:
More whining up five touchdowns by Baylor coaches after a penalty

9:48:
I guess if wvu were a dry campus, we’d be better at football.

9:48:
Spain makes me long for the heady days of Brock Holland and John Conte

9:50:
Maybe Clint Trickett is in so much pain he thinks he’s in a distance throwing contest

9:50:
Baylor has a lot of punks. The [stuff (anything)]-talking seems to be nonstop.

9:52:
Yo we just ran triple option for the first time since 13-9. Funny, it didn’t work.

9:52:
I must be hallucinating

9:58:
I never thought I’d see 100 points in a game and certainly not by a WVU opponent.

9:58:
If our defense only gives up 70 in this game, it deserves the game ball.

9:59:
It’s not too early for “Head down. Writing.” Is it?

10:01:
I, for one, welcome our new Baptist overlords.

10:09:
Are we willing to consider that Todd Graham’s a better coach than Dana?

10:26:
You pretty much have to take mescaline to follow a Dana Holgorsen football team

10:27:
Ooh! Sign of life?

10:34:
We are predicting a Sims performance like that of Slaton against Louisville of ’05. He needs five more.

10:36:
One game for Baylor in 27 days? Does this one count?

10:49:
I cant even text….they r good…they should b what we hope to be….it happen so fast….it is basketball on turf…..i hope they run the table.

11:01:
Still watching. Never knew I had such a deep reserve of morbid curiosity.

11:17:
Millard just followed up an INT with the most dangerous pass one can throw.

11:19:
And Millard throws a TD that had no business being caught.

11:30:
Cue the moral-victory talk.

11:30:
Holy [mackeral]. Bollerjack literally just said “All of a sudden it’s 66-34 with the PAT to come…” It’s like American commentators CANNOT resist!

11:33:
Millard is really the local high school QB. He’s average. There’s a billion better guys. Everything is an adventure, but he’s just having fun

11:40:
Presser Q for Briles: Sure it’s a lot of points, but do u still feel kind of empty inside?

11:40:
I have no idea who davis is….i thought 81 was jd woods

11:43:
O’Toole in Texas is the full Wooderson. Just keep livin

11:43:
Let’s just let O’Toole be all the things.

11:45:
Pick ‘n lateral? Fun!

11:46:
We scored and recovered an onside kick…..we r going to cover the spread….im lmao

11:46:
Onside kick! I told you! (Please use the earlier text) (And this one)

11:47:
Classic Joe DeForest.

11:48:
O’Tools on kickoffs. Zero muffed punts. Tricky onside kick. I say we call him DeForestkkkkk with 500,000 Ks at the end

11:53:
I’ve decided that the next good WVU quarterback is not currently enrolled at the university.

11:54:
I’m assuming Holgo will get skewered for this but was it coaching? Baylor loaded its front to stop run and short throws. WVU had to go deep.

11:54:
I think its safe to say that the remainder of our games will be at Noon. Or earlier. And not televised.