The word of the day is pressure. It’s all over the place here, and it begins with the immense weight Texas running back D’Onta Foreman carries and will place upon West Virginia’s defense. Heck, he already has. He’s ascended to such a height that you know he’s coming and you’d better prepare yourself for 30 doses of 6-foot-1 and 249 pounds, plus pads.

There are a ton of fun Foreman stats — and you can find all of them at the sharp Heisman promotion site the Longhorns have finally unveiled — but this is my favorite. He has 13 touchdowns, which is quite all right. Five are in the past two games against two blah defenses. But he’s averaging 27.5 yards per touchdown: 1, 4, 4, 9, 18, 19, 22, 22, 37, 38, 47, 62, 74.

“He’s doing some things,” WVU coach Dana Holgorsen said, “that I didn’t think I’d see.”

But here’s the part to appreciate: In a league replete with offensive stars, it is a running back who’s on a roll like West Virginia has never seen. Consider that.

“He’s as good as any one player, stats-wise the last three or four weeks, that I’ve seen since we’ve been in the Big 12,” Mountaineers defensive coordinator Tony Gibson said. “Quarterback, wideout, whatever it may be. He’s rolling right now.”

The 6-foot-1, 249-pound junior leads the nation with 180.75 rushing yards per game. That alone is better than 72 out of 128 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. He has run for at least 124 yards in all eight games in which he’s played, and he had 157 and 147 yards in his final two games last season. In Big 12 play, he’s averaging 193 yards per game and 7.2 yards on 191 carries.

His 10 straight 100-yard games leads the nation. His 1,446 yards leads all Power 5 running backs. Florida State’s Dalvin Cook is second with 1,134 yards in one more game.

Should Foreman reach 100 yards against West Virginia, he’ll tie Earl Campbell’s school record for consecutive 100-yard games.

“I’ve been on record saying the days of doing this with the one back are over, and I was wrong,” Holgorsen said. “We run the ball as much as they do. We just don’t give it to one guy 35 times. I don’t know how one guy can handle that, but obviously he can. He’s the premier back in the country right now.”

The Mountaineers gave up a 65-yard touchdown run to Foreman at Mountaineer Field last season and 147 yards on 18 carries. In two years against defensive coordinator Tony Gibson’s defense, Texas, which really hasn’t changes it’s offensive attack as much as people will have you believe, has run for 277 and 227 yards.

But WVU has gradually and definitely improved its run defense. After three games and 169 yards from BYU’s Jamaal Williams, the Mountaineers ranked No. 105 our of 128 teams in rush defense. They’re No. 46 now. Only TCU’s Kyle Hicks has topped 100 since, and he had 103 yards in a loss.

Texas has a sneaky offense. Tempo sometimes works. The offensive line is underrated. The receivers are fast and make big plays. The quarterback doesn’t quake. But so much of the success or even the operation depends on Foreman spooking defenses, and Texas is going to give Foreman just about every opportunity to do that. He’s averaging 27.8 carries per game — No. 2 nationally — and has 65 in the last two, which is back-to-back career highs of 32 and 33.