Ohio State thumped West Virginia in game three 26-11 Sunday afternoon, marking the first series loss of this season for the Mountaineers. The 26 runs were the most given up during the Mazey era and only the third time Mazey’s Mountaineers gave up 20 or runs in a contest, both during the 2021 season after the team was decimated by the transfer portal.
“Over the course of a long season, you’re going to play all kinds of games. You’re going to play games where you get blown out in, and you’re going to play games where you blow the other team out,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “[It’s] Just the law of averages, over a course of 56 games tells you you’re going to be on both sides of the game like that. Ohio State lost 19-2 last weekend to a team, so they’ve been on both sides it and we’ll be on both sides of it. But I told him (the team) that the coaches from Ohio State before the game said, ‘we’ve played Arizona State, we’ve played BYU, we’ve played Oklahoma,’ and said, ‘You guys are better than all of those teams.’
“I really feel like we have a good team but once the game starts, it doesn’t matter. It’s who plays the best and we just can’t walk so many guys. We’re not the type of offense right now, as we are, to try and play catch up.”
