We’ll be here all day with various updates and sendoffs for the 2015 season, but for now, let’s review last night’s game by addressing the obvious: You had your doubts about Skyler Howard and the game’s final game and/or possession.

The Cactus Bowl was put into his hands, which were both healthy for the first time in a while, by the way, and he ended up setting a game record for passing yards, finishing second in WVU’s single-game history and making a run at the all-time bowl record that, if we’re being honest, maybe should be his this morning but instead belongs to Ty Detmer and Byron Leftwich after Howard simply missed a few of his 51 throws.

Fifty-one!

And when Arizona State coach Tod Graham lost his mind and didn’t go for two after scoring a touchdown to take a five-point lead, Howard understood one last time that he had his moment, his final opportunity to write a caption for what’s been an uneven if not unusual season for the starting quarterback.

It wasn’t perfect, which actually seems perfect, but Howard pulled it off and the curiously chill Mountaineers won.

Howard looked at the scoreboard, did the math and nodded his head before snapping on his chin strap and leading the Mountaineers on a game-winning drive.

“At that point, I took a deep breath and walked down the sideline saying, ‘You know what? We’ve been doing this all game. We’ve earned it this season. We’ve been working on this all season. It’s time we capitalize on it. It’s time we as an offense make something happen in the fourth quarter and win a ballgame,’” he said.

Howard threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to freshman David Sills with 2:19 remaining to cap a 10-play, 75-yard drive and a 43-42 win against the Sun Devils before 39,321 at Chase Field.

Howard ran for 11 yards on the drive and lost 10 yards when he was sacked, completed 4 of 6 passes for 52 yards and made the check on the game’s critical play when he changed from a pass to a run and handed to Wendell Smallwood on third-and-22 for a 24-yard gain. Sills scored two plays later.

“I think it was definitely a good time to run it,” Smallwood said. “I don’t think anyone was expecting us to run it.”

Smallwood’s easy run up the middle and to the right was as startling as it was symbolic of WVU’s stoicism at the end. The game went back and forth throughout the second half, and most of the stadium was filled with Arizona State fans rising to support a defense that was beaten again and again by Howard and his receivers.

The Mountaineers (8-5) were unfazed.

“We were in the huddle, and nobody was tense,” receiver Shelton Gibson said. “I’ve never seen that throughout practice or any other game. I’ve seen people tense up and guys be, like, ‘Hey, are you ready to go?’ But we went out there, like, ‘Man, we’ve done this before. We’ve been in this situation. This is what we do two-minute drills for all the time. We’ve got this.’ “