Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia's offense was non-existent 12 days ago at Iowa State. Well, the Mountaineers rediscovered it tonight in Morgantown against Baylor.
 
In a big way.
 
Will Grier completed 17-of-27 passes for 353 yards and three touchdowns to lead 13^th-ranked West Virginia to a 58-14 victory over Baylor in a rare Thursday night game in Morgantown.

"I thought he was solid," West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said of his quarterback. "He managed it well. The thing I liked about it is we had a whole bunch of people touch the ball."
 
It's West Virginia's first Thursday night game here since 2014, when WVU dropped a 26-20 decision to Kansas State – the only time the Mountaineers have ever lost a weekday night game in Morgantown. Including Wednesday night games, West Virginia is now 11-1 under the lights at Milan Puskar Stadium during weekdays since it first started playing them here in 1994.
 
Grier's passing totals came in three quarters of play before his night ended. On West Virginia's first play of the fourth quarter, backup quarterback Jack Allison threw his first WVU touchdown pass, a 36-yarder to a wide open Gary Jennings Jr., his second touchdown reception of the night. 
 
Jennings Jr.'s first came on the game's first offensive series after Grier completed quick passes to David Sills V and Marcus Simms, taking the football out to the 47. On the next play, Grier hit Jennings Jr. in stride down the near sideline for a 53-yard score.
 
Jennings Jr., running in motion from the far side of the field, kept on going down the near sideline. The three Baylor defenders jumped on Simms running a skinny post and Jennings Jr. was wide open for the easy touchdown.
 
Two Evan Staley missed field goals preceded more WVU scoring - both coming from Staley's leg. He punched the first one in from 25 yards and the second going for 47 yards to give the Mountaineers a 13-0 lead.
 
A Baylor punt gave West Virginia the football at its 48 with 11:25 left in the second quarter. Three Alec Sinkfield runs and a Baylor offsides penalty gave WVU a new set of downs at the Bear 32. A Grier fourth-and-3 carry for 7 yards then made it first and 10 at the 25.
 
Here, Grier wound up his arm and fired a 25-yard strike to Sills V for a touchdown, Staley's conversion giving the Mountaineers a 20-0 lead.
 
It quickly swelled to 27-0 following another Bear punt when Grier hit Sills V down the near sideline with three Baylor defenders falling down like bowling pins around him, leading to a 65-yard touchdown. It was Sills V's ninth touchdown catch of the season.
 
Shae Campbell's interception, one of three Charlie Brewer threw before leaving the game in the second quarter with an undisclosed injury, gave West Virginia the ball back at the Baylor 33. 
 
One play later, West Virginia caught the Bears  in another all-out blitz, and Martell Pettaway slipped free for a 33-yard touchdown run and the rout was on. That score made it 34-0.
 
Once more, Baylor was forced to punt with 3:57 remaining in the half and immediately WVU was right back on the doorstep of Baylor's end zone. Tevin Bush got free around right tackle at the WVU 20 and broke loose down the near side of the field, running all the way to the end zone but he was ruled down at the 1 when a hustling Verkedric Vaughns caught him from behind.
 
On the next play, Grier snuck in to give WVU a 41-0 halftime lead.
 
The third quarter began with some more Bad News Bears. This time Chris Platt fumbled the opening kickoff when he was hit by Hakeem Bailey at the Baylor 21 and the football was recovered by Sean Mahone.
 
This led to Staley's third field goal, a 44 yarder, after Grier's third-down pass to Sills V fell incomplete.
 
Baylor (4-4, 2-3) scored its first touchdown on the game's next possession with backup quarterback Jalan McClendon behind center. All but 14 of Baylor's 56 yards on its scoring drive came on the ground, including Josh Fleeks' 2-yard touchdown run.
 
The Bears got their other touchdown right after Leddie Brown completed a 10-play, 72-yard scoring drive with his 1-yard scoring plunge. That score made it 51-7.
 
McClendon completed all six of his pass attempts before finishing the 75-yard Baylor march with a 1-yard touchdown run.
 
The vast majority of Baylor's 287 total yards came after the outcome was already decided. The WVU defense limited the Bears to just five first downs and 87 first-half yards while coming up with three turnovers. West Virginia's 12 tackles for losses were the most by the Mountaineers since recording 14 in a 21-20 win over Pitt here in 2011.

"It's hard to argue with what (the defense) did," Holgorsen said. "They created turnovers and won the turnover battle 4-0. I don't have the field position numbers, but I'm assuming we dominated the field position with turnovers and with making them punt quick. I think we tackled better."
 
Brewer bore the brunt of it, completing just 1 of his 8 pass attempts for 22 yards including all three picks before leaving the game. McClendon stepped in to complete 16-of-21 for 183 yards, mostly in the second half.
 
Sills V (139 receiving yards) and Jennings Jr. (100) gave West Virginia its first dual 100-yard receivers since its season-opening 40-14 victory over Tennessee in Charlotte.
 
The Mountaineers finished the night with 568 total yards, their most since putting up 625 yards in a 52-17 win over Youngstown State in week two.

The victory tonight was Holgorsen's 59th at West Virginia, moving him past Art Lewis for sole possession of third place. His next win will move into a tie with Rich Rodriguez for second with 60 victories.
 
Baylor is now winless in four tries here in Morgantown, losing by scores of 70-63, 41-27, 24-21 and 58-14.

"Obviously it was a disappointing night," Baylor coach Matt Rhule said. "We didn't play very well and a lot of credit to West Virginia. I thought they played well in all phases. Everyone in that room is disappointed. We didn't see it coming. We thought we practiced and prepared well."
 
West Virginia improves to 6-1, 4-1 with tonight's win and remains one game behind league leader Texas in the loss column with a Nov. 3 meeting in Austin looming.
 
A game time for that game will not be revealed until Sunday.
 
An announced crowd of 53,117 watched tonight's game.