Throw the FootballWest Virginias defense has just three interceptions this season. Only three teams this season have fewer than WVU. Quarterbacks from Pittsburgh, Kansas, Texas, Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU and Iowa State combined for 16 touchdown pa ses with only one interception against the Mountaineers this year. That should embolden Dillon Gabriel, who threw three picks against Baylor his last time out and has thrown four in his last three games.The WVU defense ranks 118th in the Garrett Temple Jersey nation defending the pa s, allowing 276 yards per game, and is 119th in pa s efficiency defense and 120th in scoring.And that should embolden Jeff Lebby to call a lot of pa s plays. Theres certainly nothing wrong with the Sooner run game. Eric Gray has been a vision of elusivene s and strength. OU leads the Big 12 and ranks 12th nationally at 220 rushing yards per game. And grinding out first downs and winding the clock and keeping po se sion is absolutely a sound method of offense for this OU team.But the WVU secondary is low-hanging fruit. Gabriel and Lebby should gather up all they can.Stack the BoxMaybe its too late for the Oklahoma defense. Maybe changes structurally or personnel-wise just wont help. Maybe, just like in 2018, the Sooners are what they are.If true, thats probably good news for West Virginia.The Mountaineers are coming off a dreadful lo s last week at Iowa State which has a very Tomas Satoransky Jersey good defense, actually but thats not where theyll be drawing from when the Sooners come to Morgantown on Saturday.Rather, WVU will try to recapture the offensive magic that pushed them to a 43-40 win over Baylor the same Baylor team that just pushed OU around in Norman back on Oct. 13.Tony Mathis rushed for 163 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries, Kaden Prather had 109 yards and a touchdown Coby White Jersey on eight catches, and JT Daniels threw for 283 yards and a touchdown to help the Mountaineers to 500 yards total offense and 43 points and an impre sive win, their first in conference play. Scroll to ContinueThe OU defense has been susceptible to those kinds of outbursts all season. If the Sooners can get a couple of stops a field goal instead of a touchdown, a punt instead of a field goal then maybe Oklahoma can come home with a win.Maybe OUs defense should stack the box and emphasize stopping the run. In its last three games since that big win over the defending Big 12 champs, WVU has averaged 101 rushing yards per game and 3.4 yards per carry.That might be too much to ask, however, from an Oklahoma defense that has given up 275, 361, 296, 165 and 281 rushing yards and 6.2 yards per carry in five of its last six games. Forget the PastOU has won 30 of its last 35 games on the road and 24 of its last 27 in November. For this team Team 128, Brent Venables calls it such streaks now can be placed onto the pedestal of history, like 47 straight or 13-0. What this Oklahoma team knows is that they lost their last two road games last year at Baylor and at Oklahoma State, and that theyve now lost three of their last four in what used to be called Championship November.And as for OUs 9-0 record against WVU in Big 12 play? Just as meaningle s. Wyoming transfer C.J. Coldon said this week the only things he knew about West Virginia came from what programmers Chandler Hutchison Jersey had loaded into a video game.I havent heard too much besides its in kind of the middle of nowhere, Coldon said. When I think about West Virginia, I Kris Dunn Jersey think about a lot of trees, a lot of woods and like, the raccoon hat. I think about that, but Ive been one time and it was traveling through, just going to Florida to, I think, AAU nationals. I used to play basketball when I was little so thats the only time Ive been in West Virginia.These Sooners are now 5-4. Theyve been humbled repeatedly. They need one more win over the next three Saturdays to even qualify for even the most mundane bowl game. If they get there, Venables will put to good use the 15 extra practices as he tries to continue developing the roster and staving off the transfer portal. The Sooners might need to peak this week an all-time high with their attention to detail, and certainly a season-best fanatical effort.Anything le s and the only talk of bowl games will be from OUs glorious past.