Though I was one the road, football went on as planned Tuesday, and the head coach as well as his assistant coaches and their players met the media.

We sit in here every Sunday and every single player on the team and every coach, we watch all the special teams’ plays. All I said was, ‘if you want to get in on one of these units, play like this.’ He did a great job avoiding a block, making a tackle, forcing a fumble, he could’ve gotten up and started celebrating but he got right up, chased after the ball, after it was fumbled around one or two more times he ends up getting the recovery. That’s what special teams is all about, that effort, that non-stop getting after the ball, especially on the coverage units. That’s what we want out of all 10 of our guys running down the field.

It’s Wednesday, so … Good: Shane Commodore’s play. That would have gotten a spotlight if the G&B were a Thing this week. He forced the fumble 15 yards from where he recovered the fumble. Think about that. I have no proof to support this theory, but I do think it’s generally acceptable to say that when a team has it going good, you see plays like that happen. It’s a bit of good luck, and WVU is definitely due for some, but it’s a play by an otherwise anonymous player who nevertheless wants to do something to be a part of things.

No. 10 West Virginia plays at Oklahoma State at noon Saturday on Fox. We learned many things about the opponent, its running game and the plan for William Crest. Dana Holgorsen, I’ve always thought, admires Oklahoma State as much and maybe more than anyone else in the Big 12. He’s not as giddy about targeting calls, though.

“We look at them — and I’ve got to be pretty careful about how I respond to this — but we look at it through West Virginia’s angle and they look at it through the referee’s angle. So they’re going to justify pretty much anything they do.”

After reviewing the hit himself, Holgorsen said he told the defense he can’t ask them to change anything in the way it plays. The WVU staff makes sure to teach legal, aggressive tackling, and Holgorsen said that has been a byproduct of the NCAA targeting rules. What frustrates him is when what he considers a legal hit results in an ejection.

“I get the integrity of the rule,” Holgorsen said. “I agree with the integrity of the rule. I agree with the rule. I think coaches across the country have done a much better job of teaching tackling the right way, including us. I can’t ask our guys to do anything different than what they’ve done the last couple of games.”