This should be the most relaxed West Virginia’s football team has been in playing the No. 3 team in the country in a long, long time … perhaps ever.

On the surface, there’s plenty of reason for heartburn. The Mountaineers are trying to keep this year’s win total as close to last year’s 10 as they can, and adding to the seven they already have is a must. They’ll face third-ranked Oklahoma in Norman, an insanely difficult place to play, and they’ll do so with Chris Chugunov, not the injured Will Grier, starting at quarterback.

Beneath the surface, WVU coach Dana Holgorsen knows so few people think his team can win, that there’s no reason to be nervous.

“What do we have to lose, you know?” he said earlier this week. “Let’s go play ball, let’s have fun.”

Now, Oklahoma has plenty to worry about. The Sooners won’t start Heisman front-runner Baker Mayfield — Kyler Murray will start after Mayfield’s outburst of profanities and obscene gestures against Kansas — but Mayfield will play. And he’ll play next week when the Sooners face TCU in the Big 12 title game. And Oklahoma needs to win both those games to cement a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Who’s reaching for the Tums now?

The best shot for WVU today is for the Sooners to be looking a week, and further, ahead. Then, maybe, the Mountaineers can catch OU off balance and score an upset like Pitt did Friday over No. 2 Miami … or Pitt did in 2007 against WVU. West Virginia can play spoiler in Norman today, which would be a nice consolation for the manure sandwich life has fed it for the last week.