This is a great picture, not because I want to gift you Darrien Howard posters, but because WVU’s nose guard audaciously chased Corey Coleman into the end zone Saturday.

Coleman’s a bad man, everybody. There was a memo to that effect circulating before, and I’m not certain you saw it. But the eyeful he provided Saturday was more or less what the memo said — and he flat dropped three passes.

Dana Holgorsen, who, I guess, went straight from the field to the press conference, which kept me from getting video, was highly complimentary afterward. You can that see and everything else he had to say here. Baylor’s got a few of those players, and the Mountaineers were left to admit, if not believe, that the Bears were not only better at McLane Stadium but that they could also be good enough to be in the semifinals and standing at the end.

“If they let us play with 14 [defensive players], maybe we’d be able to get it done,” Gibson said. “We had 11, and we didn’t. We weren’t good enough.”

The Bears (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) scored on the fourth play from scrimmage and added touchdown drives that lasted seven, six, eight, eight, one, seven and eight plays. None lasted longer than 3:14, and that was the final one engineered by the backups.

The Mountaineers (3-3, 0-3) lingered until they stumbled through their final three possessions of the first half, throwing a long pass into the end zone that was intercepted and then making and missing field goals in the red zone to trail 27-17 at halftime.

“I knew we couldn’t outscore these guys,” Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen said. “We’re not there yet offensively. We’re going to continue to improve. I think we took a step in the right direction, and I think we’re going to continue to improve.

“We’ve got some young guys and some inexperienced guys who will continue to improve. With the experience they have on offense, we can’t outscore them. We’ve got to have them have an off day where they miss throws and we create some turnovers. Clearly, we didn’t have that.”

Baylor’s eruption to start the second half followed a WVU punt and seeped into the fourth quarter, where the Bears took a 55-24 lead on an 11-yard run from running back Shock Linwood.

“Baylor’s got a great team, they’ve got great confidence and they’re really good on offense,” Gibson said. “Are we 62 points-bad defensively? I guess against them we are. It’s not like we gave them any free ones.”

The Mountaineers, meanwhile, have now followed a 3-0 start with three loses, the fourth straight year they’ve had at least a three-game losing streak and the fifth streak of at least that length in that span. In his seven years at WVU, Rich Rodriguez had only four losing streaks of three or more games. Don Nehlen had 10 in his 21 season. Rodriguez’s last one was followed by an an 11-1 record in the 2005 season that was capped by a Sugar Bowl win against Georgia. Nehlen’s last one was in 2000, the season he retired and the year after he had two three-game skids.

Games are long and momentum is fickle, but if you asked WVU to do so for you, it would boil down that game to what the Bears did to start the second half and what the Mountaineers didn’t do at the end of the first half. (Plenty of David Sills in there, if you choose.)

Quarterback Skyler Howard threw an interception in the end zone in the second quarter when a long throw to Shelton Gibson arrived a little late, which let cornerback Ryan Reid recover to pick off the pass. It gave Baylor a forced turnover in 22 straight games, the longest streak in the country.

Howard and Gibson both took blame for the mistake, and receivers coach Lonnie Galloway pointed at his player.

“I told him, ‘You’re never that wide open. You’re never going to be that wide open to where you can’t go up and get it,’ ” Galloway said. “That’s his thing. He has to go up and get the ball.”

Howard’s 47-yard pass to Jordan Thompson gave WVU first-and-goal at Baylor’s 3-yard line. Redshirt freshman Dontae Thomas-Williams gained a yard before two Howard runs gained just a yard, and WVU settled for Josh Lambert’s 25-yard field goal.

A 52-yard run by Wendell Smallwood, the longest of his career and the longest for the Mountaineers this season, gave WVU first-and-goal at Baylor’s 10. Smallwood left the game, and Rushel Shell gained a yard before the Mountaineers lost 15 on a chop block and had to replay second down. A pass to Jovon Durante was incomplete, and Howard ran for 6 yards on third down.

Lambert then missed from 35 yards just before halftime. He’d made 18 straight field goals from inside 40 yards.

“We had two missed opportunities, and if we get touchdowns out of those two drives, it’s [a 28-27 lead] at halftime,” Holgorsen said. “What’d we lose by? Thirty? That would have put us in a better place at halftime. There’s no question that’s the type of stuff that needs to happen in order to beat those guys, and it didn’t happen.”