Rodriguez points out multiple factors for his belief WVU football will be better in 2026
The more you look into the 2025 season for West Virginia football — Year 1 for Rich Rodriguez — the worse it gets. The Mountaineers went 4-8, won two Big 12 games and lost to Ohio, who is a Group of Five school. The last time Rodriguez's squad took the field, Texas Tech came to Morgantown and won 49-0. It was one of the worst seasons in recent years. Realistically, the season was set up for failure. Rodriguez was hired in December, so he couldn't have much of a recruiting class, and he had a mass exodus of players leave through the transfer portal. He attempted to patch holes to ...
