“When Skyler gives me that look, I already know,” receiver Shelton Gibson said. “He doesn’t have to say anything to me. He can signal some bull crap and I already know he’s about to go deep. It’s just a connection he and I have.”

It feels weird to keep saying this, because we’re sort of deep into the season by now, but the verdict has not yet come in for West Virginia’s offense or for it’s passing game. We’ve seen good and bad non-conference performances and we’ve seen encores that do and do not match in Big 12 play.

But what we can gather and safely state so far is that quarterback Skyler Howard has a — literally — unspeakably strong bond with his two favorite receivers.