West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen speaks with an official during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Kansas in Morgantown, W. Va., Saturday Oct. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Craig Hudson)

MORGANTOWN — Lost in all the hoopla of West Virginia’s (5-0, 3-0 Big 12) 38-22 victory over Kansas University – which included junior defensive end Reese Donahue’s wedding proposal – was that eighth-year coach tied Art ‘Pappy’ Lewis (1950-59) for third-most wins in program history with his 58th career victory in Morgantown.

“It’s an honor to be here, period, and I’m sure, at some point, we’ll look back at it and maybe throw a party about it or something like that, but right now, I do not care about that. I care about 5-0 and 3-0 in the Big 12, period,” Holgorsen said.

The Mountaineers will look to hand their veteran leader his 59th win at 7 p.m. on Saturday when they travel to Ames, Iowa, to take on an Iowa State Cyclones team coming off an impressive win over then-No. 25 ranked Oklahoma State program.

“What do you all want to talk about?” Holgorsen quipped following Saturday’s Homecoming win. “5-0. We’ll take it.”

He’ll take it, but that doesn’t mean he had to like what he saw. Especially on offense.

“Just like last week (a 42-34 win at Texas Tech), I don’t think we’re a bad second-half team just because we weren’t good at one particular thing last week.

“We’ve been pretty good in the red zone. I don’t really think that it’s a problem.

“(We) just probably made some bad decisions; probably made some bad decisions play-call wise and we probably made some bad decisions at the quarterback spot. The receivers didn’t bail him out, either. We’ve got a lot of things that we need to work on. That will probably be the next one that we focus on.”

And, that includes a running attack that showed flashes of promise and the emergence of WVU’s latest standout – freshman Leddie Brown.

“He (Brown) doesn’t play like a freshman, he doesn’t act like a freshman, he doesn’t look like a freshman. So, quit calling him a freshman. He’s a good player. I’m glad we got him.”

Brown, who came into his fifth game as the Mountaineers’ second-leading ball carrier behind junior Kennedy McKoy, made his presence felt early when he hauled in a Will Grier attempt for a 15-yard scoring strike to open the scoring for the hosts.

The Delaware native reached the end zone a second time during the opening quarter when he powered in from 1-yard out with 5:21 showing on the clock.

For the game, Brown finished with a game-high 107 yards on 11 carries (9.7 ypc) and the one touchdown. Numbers which impressed KU head coach David Beaty.

“He (Brown) was impressive,” Beaty said. “We knew about their other runners, but we’re caught a little by surprise by him. He definitely had an impact on how we adapted our game plan against (Will) Grier.”

Grier, WVU’s Heisman hopeful, threw four touchdown passes – the 15th time during his 16-game career in Morgantown – that he has registered multiple touchdown passes in a game. It was also the 12th time he had thrown for at least three scores in a game

WVU’s game at ISU will be televised nationally on FS1.