I’ve no idea what to do with or make of this stat, but I do know it’s interesting. I think. I don’t know. No one knows. Nevertheless, Dana Holgorsen is now 14-9 when his team is ranked. He started 13-3, and the 16th game there was back in the 2012 season. Only seven of those 23 games were against ranked teams. I feel like there’s something there, especially as it relates to that contender-pretender conversation we had yesterday.

And what about yesterday?

Time is going to do something with that game. Time might treat Oklahoma kindly, and yesterday then won’t look so bad, but I think we thought the same last season, and I think these Sooners are not without warts. Time might forget the specifics of the game, which is often the case, and WVU can further edit or erase certain perceptions by winning an upcoming game or two. Or time might reinforce things, and I think the common concern after 44-24, after Skyler Howard’s day, after you saw that some things you thought might be there actually are there, is that what happened for the first time happens more than once.

A whole lot went wrong — some things more than once — in the fourth straight coulda-woulda-shoulda loss to Oklahoma. But WVU is also 3-0 after losing to the Sooners. The Mountaineers made a quarterback change after the 2013 loss in Norman, but I don’t suspect that to be the case here. That said, the conversation after the game was the play of Howard, no matter who was and was not involved in the conversation.

But Howard committed five turnovers Saturday in the most inhospitable environment Howard has faced to date and against the staunchest defense to line up across from him, mistakes he would not defend afterward because he wasn’t made available to the media.

Howard completed 17 of 32 passes for 173 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. He was sacked seven times and lost two fumbles. Both fumbles and one interception led to 13 points, including 10 of the 17 unanswered points Oklahoma scored to finish the 44-24 win.

“It comes down their defense was better than me,” Holgorsen said. “I’m the one calling those plays, and I didn’t do a good job in the fourth quarter calling the plays you need to call to beat these guys. This one falls on me.”

Holgorsen said he caught himself being conservative with play calls in the third quarter and decided to be more assertive as his team tried to come back from a 24-7 halftime deficit. On a third-and-3 at his 26-yard line, Holgorsen decided to pass and Howard was sacked and lost a fumble that preceded a Sooners field goal and a 27-17 lead.

“I felt like we needed to continue to attack,” Holgorsen said. “When you’re reckless like that against these guys, it’s tough.