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MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Playing four quarters has been a challenging task for the West Virginia offense this football season.

In last week's 28-23 win over Kansas State, the Mountaineers started out hot but sputtered in the second half, which happened the previous week.

During the first half last week, WVU picked up 338 yards of offense. Will Grier completed 16-of-28 passes for 275 yards.

Every game, WVU seems to either start slow or finish slow.

"If we put together four quarters we would have 40 plus points," senior wide receiver Ka'Raun White said. "We put about 20 up in one quarter so if we could just put it all together for four quarters who knows."

How can an offense with Grier, David Sills V, White, Gary Jennings, Justin Crawford and …show more content…

"Catch the ball," he said. "That's just routine plays that we have to make. The biggest emphasis is just catching the ball, no matter what the conditions are we have to make that play."

Against Kansas State, WVU converted 3-of-12 third-downs.

"Ours was terrible last week," head coach Dana Holgorsen said. "They hit about the same as us, we're both at about 38, 39 percent, I believe, which is bottom-half. It's the same thing, you have to be able to execute in tight spaces. If people are going to beat you up, then you have to be able to body people and make catches. Gary (Jennings) has been fantastic with that; we need a few more guys be able to do that. They know we're going to Gary on third-and-four. He's made some big catches, but we need other guys that need to be options as well."

WVU has averaged 39.0 points per contest. The offense has rushed for a total of 1,618 yard and passed for 3,521 yards. Red-zone offense has improved significantly over last year.

If the Mountaineers could fire on all cylinders for an entire four quarters, they would blow defenses out of the water and possibly have won some close games that

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