Morning Mashup - 10/3

Your morning look back, around the headlines and into the future.

On This Date:

- West Virginia has an all-time record of 8-4-1. The most recent of these games was a 45-24 victory over Navy in 1998. Marc Bulger led the way, throwing for 354 yards and two touchdowns, while Amos Zereoue tacked on 115 total yards and two more scores.

In The News:

Lesson learned from last year (Hickman - Gazette)

Mountaineers special teams in need of makeover (Vingle - Gazette)

Smith dominating in Heisman straw poll (Gazette)

Longhorns opened up offense to keep up with rest of Big12 (Casazza - Daily Mail)

Secondary a primary concern for No. 8 WVU (Casazza - Daily Mail)

Fans hoping to join Mountaineers can expect costly road trip (Hunt - Daily Mail)

Texas coach has plenty of praise for 4-0 Mountaineers (Huffman - Register-Herald)

WVU's offense set for Texas defense (Hertzel - TimesWV)

High tempo offenses rule Big12 football (Hertzel - TimesWV)

West Virginia defense trying hard to put Baylor game in the past (Menendez - Post-Gazette)

Stripe the stadium a major success (Arthur - Daily Athenaeum)

Texas presents different challenge for WVU defense (Carvelli - Daily Athenaeum)

Woods emerging as third threat in passing game (Carvelli - Daily Athenaeum)

Nugget of The Day:

- 2014 La Plata (MD) WR Jvon Simmons was in town for the Maryland game two weeks back and came away impressed. "It was wonderful! I loved it!"

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