West Virginia’s matchup with Ohio is what some call a “trap game,” with the potential of College GameDay coming to Morgantown for the Backyard Brawl against Pitt. The Mountaineers fell into the trap pretty hard.

WVU lost to Ohio 17-10 on the road, handing the Mountaineers the first loss of the second Rich Rodriguez era. WVU is now 1-1 on the season, and it was the first loss out of 13 meetings with the Bobcats.

“I’m very disappointed,” Rodriguez said. “It starts with me. I told the guys that I failed them this week.”

The game wasn’t completely out of reach.

The defense had a couple of blown coverages, but did everything it could to allow the offense to come and win the game. However, the offense just couldn’t get anything going all day.

They started off hot, with a big Jahiem White to

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