Observations: West Virginia football at Oklahoma State
Each week WVSports.com Managing Editor Keenan Cummings provides a look at some of the things that stood out to him during the course of the game and on the stat sheet.
These observations are a snap shot of what unfolded in the West Virginia 24-19 win over Oklahoma State and what could happen next for the Mountaineers.
--If I would have told you before the season that West Virginia would have beaten Virginia Tech by the largest amount ever in Lane Stadium, beaten Baylor, finally beaten Oklahoma and go on the road and knock off Oklahoma State you would have been pretty excited, right? Well, all that led to was a 5-7 finish on a season that gives the Mountaineers their third losing season in four years under head coach Neal Brown. Yes, credit to this team for going out there with a bunch of young players and finding a way to do something that no West Virginia team has done since 2014 in beating the Cowboys in Stillwater but let’s no kid ourselves that team isn’t the same without Spencer Sanders. Still, that’s the first loss for Oklahoma State at home in 14 games and gives the Mountaineers at least some momentum heading into the off-season regardless of what unfolds in the coming days and weeks. Any win is big, but beating both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the same year hasn’t happened since West Virginia joined the Big 12 regardless of how things have turned out.
--West Virginia had one 50+ yard run throughout the entire season coming into this game, but redshirt freshman Jaylen Anderson had two 50+ touchdown runs in the third quarter. He finished this game with 14 carries for 155 yards and those two scores and showed some strength as well as patience. This is a player that found himself way down the depth chart even at the mid-way point of this season and simply just put his head down and continued to work and try to improve. That paid off in a big way when the Mountaineers needed it the most.
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