There hasn’t been too much positive to take away through five games of Rich Rodriguez’s first season back at West Virginia. The highlight was obviously the win over Pitt in the Backyard Brawl, but other than that, not much.

The offense looked bad every week, and the special teams had its ups and downs. The defense was consistently pretty good through the first four weeks and kept the Mountaineers in games. However, against Utah, the defense was completely exposed and allowed 48 points and 532 yards.

“I thought, we played pretty consistent,” Rodriguez said. “Played well in a lot of our games. Today, we were leaving guys wide open, missing tackles, and giving up deep balls. I thought there was a couple of times to make a chance of a play on a ball, and we didn’t do it. It was not good.”

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