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Two hours before kickoff

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You are looking live at the ominous and unusual sky above Mountaineer Field. There’s only a minimal chance of in-game rain in the forecast — it’s drizzling as I type — but it’s going to be windy and chilly and certainly windier and chillier than what West Virginia is accustom to so far this season. I suppose it’s good preparation for next weekend in Lubbock.

The really weird part about this is that on the other side of the stadium, it looks like an ideal autumn Saturday.

Anyhow, we’ve been through this game all week and we’ve more or less eliminated any chance for a Kansas victory with little argument. I would like to point you in the direction of one thing we haven’t really discussed with much depth: The Kansas defense.

It’s not bad and it suffers because it is routinely put in bad spots by the offense. Check out last week’s drive chart in the 23-0 loss to Texas. The four scoring drives covered 18, 13, 4 and 27 yards. Texas is a mess on offense, but the Jayhawks didn’t let the Longhorns clean thins up at their expense.

Don’t get me wrong: The offense is very bad, and that’s going to affect the defense, but the defense is better than the reputation-by-association suggests. That doesn’t really matter today because WVU’s offense is better than the Texas offense, but if it’s windy or wet and Clint Trickett can’t spin it or the receivers can’t cut and dash like they want against he man-to-man coverage, then this could be more interesting than logic predicts.

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