You are looking live at the not-yet-completed practice facility West Virginia has been diligently working on for a couple of weeks now. It’s near completion and will check in cozily under $2 million. Above all else, it’s going to give the Mountaineers a home away from home in that they can practice somewhere other than Mountaineer Field. That’s been one of Dana Holgorsen’s most divisive, most consistent points upon arriving here in December 2010 — teams shouldn’t practice where they play because it diminishes the totality of the game day experience.

Not saying he’s right. Just saying what he’s saying.

So this is just about to be checked off the list. The weight room and the team meeting room and the enhanced and increased meeting space for coaches and players have been checked off the lost. Go back to that time Holgorsen took Coach K and I me on a tour of his facilities and see what’s been done since then. These things had to happen, and this turf practice field definitely had to happen, because the team was done using the old grass facility. Things are happening, surely and not exactly slowly.

Just in time to build that new stadium up at Mylan Park.

Anyhow, there’s a game today, and I’d like to spend a moment on something we haven’t discussed this week: Turnovers.

Texas doesn’t commit them them and WVU has been just OK about that. But someone’s going to lose the ball once or twice here today and there really only might be one or two in the game. I feel like that’s important.

The Longhorns are plus-9 overall and plus-1 per game in turnover margin. They’ve turned it over at least once in six of nine games but never more than twice. They’ve gained a turnover in six games and only two of those six Texas force fewer than two.

WVU is plus-2 overall and plus-0.25 per game in turnover margin. It’s has committed at least one turnover in straight six games and more than one in four of those games. They’ve forced just one in the past three games and the 12 in the past six counts six from Maryland.

Why the fixation here? Neither team is trying to win a footrace here today. Both have, at minimum, concerns with their quarterbacks engineering a passing attack. They’re going to run the ball, attempt to control the flow of the game and combine to minimize possessions.

And if one of these teams does decided to take flight, the other team is going to be just fine with that.

But check out the game-by-game for Texas. There’s an understandable correlation between wins and losses and being in or ahead in games you might not expect given other numbers — like finishing below 300 yards of offense against Rice and Oklahoma State and then winning one by 14 and losing the other by 3.

WVU’s game-by-game is loquacious, too. I mean, this is a team that’s lost the battle in five straight games. That never happened throughout Holgorsen’s first four seasons and the entire time Bill Stewart and Rich Rodriguez were coaching. It’s seemingly hard to do.

The concern is not necessarily the offense, though. It’s committed four/”only” four turnovers the past three games. The defense has forced one turnover in that time, and that interception against Texas Tech was big because it kept the Red Raiders off the scoreboard — and then again, how big as Skyler Howard’s second interception later in the game? The turnover margin against Baylor and TCU wasn’t too important, given the combined 54-point spread, but WVU did lose possessions in games it could not afford to lose possessions.

And it feels like today is that kind of game. Possessions will matter. The Mountaineers are not going to throw a lot of passes — Texas is on a sack tear, by the way — but they have to hang onto the ball, too, and we know that’s been an issue. Nine Longhorns have forced exactly one fumble. Five players have intercepted at least one pass. Thirteen players have forced a turnover.

It comes from all over the place, which is a pretty apt description of the defense as a whole.

Texas, meanwhile, has thrown just three interceptions and lost four fumbles. The interceptions and two of the fumbles belong to Jerrod Heard, a freshman quarterback WVU must try to coerce. The rest of the offense is pretty secure. The entire team has six fumbles and not one belongs to leading rushers D’Onta Freeman (77 carries) and Jon Gray (109) or package quarterback Tyrone Swoopes (44). Receiver Daje Johnson, who leads the team with 29 catches, lost a fumble on a big hit against TCU, but the team’s other 104 receptions have gone without consequence.

Hang on, and let’s begin.