Thursday, West Virginia gets on the plane and travels 1,738 miles to Provo, Utah, for its sixth game, and its third road game of the season. It’s by far the farthest WVU’s traveled this season, with the other road games being at Ohio and at Kansas.

There’s a significant time change, and with the game at 8:30 p.m. local time, it’ll actually feel like 10:30 p.m. for the players. It’s going to be an adjustment.

Then, there’s the crowd of LaVell Edwards Stadium. The stadium holds 63,470, which is the largest in the Big 12. For reference, Milan Puskar Stadium is fourth and holds 60,000.

“The biggest challenge on the road is, this is going to be the first true crowd noise test for our guys, I think from that standpoint,” Rich Rodriguez said. ‘We got to prepare for that. We’ll be working on cr

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