WVU’s homecoming football game is also special this year, as the Mountaineers will be dawning their all-black “Coal Rush” uniforms that honor coal miners across the state. It will also be a blackout theme for fans and alumni watching the Mountaineers take on the TCU Horned Frogs at 6 p.m. Saturday.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia football returns home for the first time in a month to host TCU on Homecoming this week. WVU football coach Rich Rodriguez spoke to the media Tuesday afternoon

The transfer portal and NIL money have helped level the playing field across college football. The result is the type of parity that makes the NFL must-see TV with the competition tighter than ever, especially in the Power Four conferences.

As we reach mid-October in north central West Virginia, plenty of local teams are fighting to make a statement heading into the final few weeks of the high school football season with some dreaming of a state championship.