To word it differently, only one of the top four Big XII team losses was to a team not among them (Texas). WVU has no control of other team's overall records. To say they were disappointing because their P5 wins were against teams with a combined 17-42 record is ignorant. They were supposed to...
Do you not remember very good WVU teams getting beaten worse than that by Miami and Penn State in the 80's? You know, the same decade that had an 11-0 1988 team.
1-8 against 8-5 teams since the start of 2012 is unacceptable. We should at least split them if we want to at least be an 8 win team instead of no more than 7 wins.
The issue is that we are 1-8 against 8-5 teams since the start of the 2012 season. That is the bigger problem than losing to the number 2 team on the road.