Bradley Starks News

Wrapping up our review of each team's preseason Best case/Worst case scenarios with West Virginia.

Guess I'll start this off. Late word out of Piscataway. Bradley Starks is out for the game with a concussion.

Pittsburgh's shocking upset of West Virginia in Morgantown two years ago was a positive end to an otherwise disappointing season.

Wes Lyons had grown up - all the way to the 6-foot, 8-inch altitude he now flies at - around Pittsburgh.

Injuries have slowed QB Jarrett Brown. MORGANTOWN - Where, oh where has West Virginia's high-powered offense gone? The numbers are fairly well known by now, but for the sake of clarity and as an update, chew on this: In the first five games of the season, the Mountaineers averaged 33.4 points and 449.2 total yards.

By now, everyone's hashed out the two bad calls that cost West Virginia a chance to upset a Top five team at its home field and stay in the chase for the Big East Title: a 'The Cincy fumble at the goal line that was reversed and turned into a touchdown.

In retrospect, Bill Stewart said Monday that he would likely take the same approach to West Virginia's crucial late-game series against Cincinnati that he took during Friday night's game: Go for the make-or-break touchdown.

In order to see what West Virginia's football coaches want their offense to look like, it doesn't take a far-flung search.

"Winning ugly" is a descriptive phrase referring to a method by which a team doesA everything it can to lose, but still ends up on the top end of the score.A An ugly win, otherwise known as "a win is a win is a win," is acceptable on occasion as a display of a team's resiliency.

TAMPA, Fla. - Friday wasn't the best of nights for West Virginia cornerback Keith Tandy.

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett It's been a painful season for Reed Williams, the West Virginia linebacker and one of the best defensive players in the Big East.

The schools have met four times dating back to 2005, and the margin of victory for either school has been no more than 15 points.

West Virginia University quarterback Jarrett Brown's playing status will be a game-day decision, said coach Bill Stewart.

Brandon Hogan has started to notice something strange about the behavior of opposing offenses.

College football is a great game filled with great stats, but a lot of them are rendered useless when you see one like this.

True freshman quarterback Geno Smith's second-half performance against Marshall may have all but quelled any anxiety over the loss of Jarrett Brown.

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett Bill Stewart didn't come right out and say Jarrett Brown won't be his starting quarterback this week, but the West Virginia coach sounds like he thinks that will be the case.

One West Virginia quarterback got knocked into next week. Another came in and gave Mountaineers fans a glimpse of what things will look like for the next few years.

Tyrod Taylor picked Virginia Tech. Virginia landed Pete Lalich. West Virginia swooped into Central Virginia for Orange County standout Bradley Starks.

Eastern View High School graduate Stevie Strother had perhaps his best game as a collegiate on Saturday, averaging more then seven yards per carry to help Southern Illinois rally past Illinois State 43-23. Strother, a true freshman running back for the Salukis, carried four times and gained 30 yards as Southern Illinois - ranked No.