West Virginia Football 2017: Sooners blow past Mountaineers

With starting quarterback Will Grier sidelined with a hand injury West Virginia football couldn’t muster enough offense to keep pace with Oklahoma.

Oklahoma football (11-1) ran circles around a West Virginia team that was without the services of quarterback Will Grier. The Moutaineers’ starting quarterback suffered a gruesome hand injury last weekend against Texas. His status for West Virginia’s potential bowl game is still uncertain.

West Virginia (7-5) ends their season with successive losses. There were moments when the ‘Eers looked like conference title contenders, but they came up short a few times too often. Four of the Mountaineers five losses came against ranked opponents.

Baker Mayfield, who sat the first drive of the game, picked up where he left of earlier tin the season torching the West Virginia defense. He completed 14 of 17 passes for 281 yards and three touchdowns. The win was one more notch in his case for the Heisman Trophy and he certainly looked the part of Saturday.

After scoring on their second play from scrimmage to take a 7-0 lead the Sooners never looked back. West Virginia trailed for the duration of the contest and never threatened after cutting the deficit to four points midway through the first quarter.

Here are three takeaways from West Virginia’s loss to Oklahoma in Week 13.