You are looking live at WVU’s hype video for the second game of this season, that being a game against FCS Towson. Not a lot of pregame information to share with you. The Mountaineers have no changes to their depth chart, and the weather has mostly avoided the stadium for the past two hours. It may have drizzled a little here or there, but it hasn’t been appreciable and there’s apparently a 0-percent chance of rain at and around kickoff.

That’s certainly good news for WVU if WVU is to workshop some things on offense today. It should make for above average passing conditions and secure ball-carrying.

Something to keep an eye on: How many Mountaineers will play today? There were 56 against Alabama and that won’t cut it today. The offense needs to get the second-team skill players out there with Clint Trickett and there needs to be a rotation of offensive linemen. As for the defense, you’d like to see maybe five more players, especially at linebacker, but you’d like to see more snaps go to the reserves across the board, and especially in the secondary.

That is the game within today’s game.

“I think some other guys need to get more involved,” offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said.

Understand Holgorsen’s hands were, shall we say, Tide last week. Alabama isn’t an opponent to trifle with and it might not be the best idea to give a kid his first action that day.

Offensive line coach Ron Crook, for example, wants to use three backup linemen around 20 snaps each in a game. He used one for a handful of plays and only because left guard Quinton Spain got hurt and had to leave.

“One of the things I don’t want to do is put someone in there before I feel they’re totally ready and maybe it takes three weeks to recover from it if they’re not ready to go,” he said.

Of his three backup linemen, only Stone Underwood has played in a game – and that was his brief relief action against Alabama.

Defensive coordinator Tony Gibson wanted to play more people than he did, and he was more than a handful shy of the 20 or 25 players he wants to use under ordinary circumstances. The Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game was not ordinary. Alabama is formidable and could do damage to a new player’s confidence, but more importantly and more impressively, the Mountaineers were very much in the game.

“I should have played more guys, but I got caught up in the emotion of the game and didn’t want to pull a guy out and throw a guy in who hasn’t been playing at that point,” said Gibson, who specifically wants to play more of his linebackers and make sure he doesn’t wear out his starters. “I was worried about the flow of the game. It was a three-point game, a seven-point game the whole game and I was afraid to put a guy in and have them pop one on us and have it all fall back on him.”

In the spotlight? How about linebacker Ed Muldrow and defensive Shaq Riddick, who were a little light and got pushed around at times last week, and receivers Devonte Mathis and Shelton Gibson, who dropped passes last week, and Vernon Davis, who didn’t play.

Let’s find out…