Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Jarret Doege passed for 370 yards and three touchdowns to lead West Virginia to a 38-31 victory over 22^nd-ranked Iowa State this afternoon at soggy Milan Puskar Stadium.
 
"A huge win," said West Virginia coach Neal Brown, who evens his Mountaineer record at 15-15 with today's victory. "I have a lot of respect for Iowa State and what they've been able to establish there."
 
Doege also threw a pair of interceptions, one going to Jake Hummel for a 24-yard touchdown early in the third quarter, but he bounced back with two tremendous throws on West Virginia's ensuing possession to tie the game at 24.
 
He delivered the first right on the money to Winston Wright Jr. for a 35-yarder gainer on third and 6, and on the very next play, he lofted a pass to Bryce Ford-Wheaton in the back of the end zone for a 23-yard touchdown.
 
It was the catch of the year for Ford-Wheaton, who managed to control the football and drag his left foot in bounds before falling backwards out of the end zone. 
 
Instant replay let the score stand.
 
A second replay ruling with 5:57 left gave the Mountaineer defense a huge goal-line stop.
 
Brock Purdy's passing and scrambles got the ball down to the West Virginia 2 with the Cyclones poised to tie the game at 38. 
 
Breece Hall, who ran 24 times for 167 yards, was looking for his second rushing touchdown of the day when he tried to extend the football across the goal line on his first down run. Linebacker Exree Loe knocked the football out of Hall's hands as he attempted to score and Alonzo Addae recovered the ball in the end zone.
 
Addae picked up the ball and began running in the other direction toward Iowa State's goal line when the play was blown dead. A discussion among the referees determined Hall had fumbled and West Virginia recovered in the end zone for a touchback.
 
After a five-minute review, there was no conclusive video evidence to overturn the ball on the field so the football was awarded to West Virginia at its 20.
 
Had the play not been blown dead, Addae would have scored a touchdown similar to a play Darwin Cook made in the 2012 Orange Bowl against Clemson. Neal Brown said afterward he got no explanation as to why the play was ruled dead despite a fumble being called on the field.
 
The Mountaineer defense was forced to make another stop deep in its own territory when Iowa State regained possession of the football with 3:42 remaining and the ball at its 16.
 
Possessing two timeouts, Purdy marched the Cyclones down to the WVU 42, where Hall ran 8 yards for a first down on a fourth and 1. However, Iowa State was forced to use its final timeout with 48 seconds remaining when Purdy was sacked by Dante Stills for a 9-yard loss back to the WVU 39.
 
Purdy scrambled for 14 yards to the WVU 25, and with the clock still running, Iowa State left guard Trevor Downing was called for illegal motion, requiring a 10-second runoff of the clock to give the Cyclones just one more play with four seconds left.
 
Purdy lofted a pass in the general direction of 6-foot-6 tight end Charlie Kolar running to the back of the end zone, but the ball fell incomplete as time expired.
 
In the first half, Iowa State's two touchdowns were the result of blown defensive assignments by the Mountaineers. 
 
On Iowa State's third play of the game, Hall took a handoff to his left and burst through a massive hole to run 70 yards for a touchdown. 
 
Two possessions later, the Cyclones were back in the end zone when Purdy escaped pressure and lofted a pass down the far side of the field to a wide-open Tarique Milton, who caught the ball and jogged into the end zone for a 68-yard touchdown.
 
Meanwhile, West Virginia's two first-half touchdowns were the result of time-consuming drives. Following the long Hall run, the Mountaineers used six Doege passes and three Leddie Brown runs to reach pay dirt. A Brown 14-yard burst on third and 2 got the ball to the ISU 21, a 17-yard pass to tight end T.J. Banks took it to Cyclone 4 and Brown did the rest from there.
 
It was Leddie's team-leading 11th rushing touchdown run of the season.
 
West Virginia (4-4, 2-3) tied the game at 14 with 18 seconds left in the first quarter when Doege lofted a pretty 20-yard pass to Ford-Wheaton in the corner of the end zone. That play capped a nine-play, 75-yard march that consumed 4:11 of the clock.
 
In the second quarter, all of the scoring consisted of field goals from both teams.
 
West Virginia's came from Casey Legg with 9:29 remaining when the drive stalled at the Cyclone 14. It was Legg's 14^thsuccessful field goal in 15 attempts this year.
 
The Mountaineers regained possession of the football at their own 18 with 6:33 left in the half, and following a pair of first down Doege passes to Brown and Esdale, Ford-Wheaton was unable to hold on to a perfectly thrown RPO pass from Doege and Craig McDonald intercepted the ball at the ISU 35.
 
Iowa State was unable to do anything with it, but a Corey Dunn 43-yard punt pinned West Virginia in at its own 5 with 2:18 to go. Iowa State regained possession of the ball with 1:18 left at its own 42, leading to Andrew Mevis' 34-yard field goal to tie the game with 18 seconds showing on the clock. 
 
Wright Jr. tied the game at 31 on the second play of the fourth quarter when he slipped free between ISU's three safeties for a 22-yard touchdown catch. Once again, Doege made a terrific throw on the fourth-and-3 play.
 
Doege's career-high 370 yards passing at WVU were unexpected coming against an Iowa State pass defense that came into today's contest ranked seventh in the country, giving up just 164.6 yards per game.
 
"I thought Jarret Doege was huge," Brown said. "You're talking about a guy who has gotten beaten up here, a little unjustly. I think quarterbacks get too much credit and too much blame, but he battled. I think we need to make sure we're talking about that."
 
The senior connected on 30 of his 46 aerials, six of those going to Ford-Wheaton for a game-high 106 yards. Wright Jr. also had 100 yards on six receptions.
 
Leddie Brown ran 22 times for 109 yards, giving the senior consecutive 100-yard rushing performances for the first time this year. He ran for 111 in last Saturday's win at TCU and now shows 642 yards for the season.
 
The WVU rushing attack, coming off a 229-yard performance against the Horned Frogs, generated 122 this afternoon. 
 
West Virginia's 492 yards of offense were the most Iowa State has allowed this year. The prior high was 342 yards by Kansas State on Oct. 16.
 
"Offensively, we ran 76 plays, and we had the ball for 35 minutes," said Brown, who was hoping for 60 offensive plays coming into today's game. "The thing that's huge about this year is that they were (defending) between 50 and 60 plays."
 
Linebacker Josh Chandler-Semedo led the WVU defense with 12 tackles and a sack, while Dante Stills registered his team-leading sixth sack of the season.
 
"We finished on defense," Brown said. "We've been in that scenario that we just went through on the final drive. Against Oklahoma and Texas Tech, we had a chance to get off the field and we didn't. Well today, we had a chance to finish the game on defense and we did."
 
Purdy completed 16-of-27 passes for 185 yards and a touchdown, but leading receiver Xavier Hutchinson, who came into today's game with a team-best 46 catches for 539 yards and five touchdowns, was limited to six catches for just 51 yards today.
 
This afternoon's victory snapped Iowa State's three-game winning streak in series play, which came by scores of 30-14, 38-14 and 42-6.
 
It was Brown's third win against a ranked team during his three-year tenure at WVU.
 
Iowa State drops to 5-3, 3-2, with today's loss.
 
An announced crowd of 45,613 watched today's game.
 
West Virginia remains in Morgantown next Saturday to face 15^th-ranked Oklahoma State, playing at home against Kansas tonight.