West Virginia headed down to Florida and still couldn’t find the win column.

The Mountaineers got rolled 45-13 by UCF, losing their fourth-straight game of the season. WVU has lost all four Big 12 games this season and is 2-5 overall. UCF gets its first Big 12 win and moves to 4-3.

“We stunk,” Rich Rodriguez said. “In every phase.”

It was closer in the first half, with the defense getting some stops, but once the offense couldn’t produce, the defense gave up big plays, letting UCF dominate.

WVU’s offensive inefficiency has been an issue all season, and the quarterback play has been one of the root causes. And Saturday was no different.

True freshman Scotty Fox Jr. was named the starter for WVU, which was the fourth different starting quarterback for Rich Rodriguez this season.

Fox didn’t last long. He started off with a deep shot, drawing a pass interference penalty. From there, Fox was sacked a couple of times and couldn’t get the offense moving. He was sacked four times in just the first quarter.

WVU’s offensive line didn’t help. The line allowed some defenders to run through unblocked and couldn’t get push on run plays. The offense looked every part as it has in the past three Big 12 games.

With WVU not threatening offensively, UCF immediately took advantage.

UCF had a quarterback issue as well. Usual starter Tayven Jackson didn’t play the last game against Cincinnati with an injury. Cam Fancher stepped up in his place and made it a competitive game against a now top-25 squad. Fancher was ruled out for WVU, so Jackson got the start once again.

Jackson didn’t miss a beat and hurt the Mountaineers with the deep play, a weakness all season.

On UCF’s first drive of the game, Jackson rolled out on fourth and four and hit a wide-open Chris Domercant for a 40-yard scoring, 7-0. WVU has trailed in all four Big 12 games. UCF’s next drive, Jackson loaded up deep again, hitting Domercant again, for a 34-yard score. The Knights were up quickly 14-0.

Jackson finished throwing for 277 yards on 23-for-34 passing and two touchdowns.

“Weren’t playing as fast as we needed to,” Rodriguez said. “We missed some tackles. We looked slower… The execution part, the scheme part we’ll have to look at.”

After three drives of Fox, Khalil Wilkins came in at quarterback for WVU. After a stop on fourth and 1, WVU started the drive in UCF territory. Wilkins had a couple of big runs and led the Mountaineers to their first score of the day, 14-7. Wilkins didn’t complete a pass on the drive.

The rest of the day, both quarterbacks took turns taking reps, like in practice, and neither could move the ball. WVU had 79 passing yards and 210 yards of total offense.

Out of the half, the wheels started to fall off for WVU.

UCF opened the half with a touchdown, ending any momentum WVU had after the Wilkins touchdown. UCF marched 92 yards on nine plays, which was capped off with a Jaden Nixon 12-yard rush. It was 21-7, UCF.

Then, disaster struck. Wilkins was strip-sacked, and UCF took it 32 yards for the score.

It seemed like WVU had momentum heading into the half, but after back-to-back scores, the Mountaineers were deflated.

The Knights kept pouring it on in the second half, and the defense was gashed. Just before the end of the third quarter, Nixon went up the middle and took off for an 83-yard touchdown. If WVU wasn’t dead already, Nixon delivered the dagger. He rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns.

UCF had 45 points and 578 yards of total offense. It was a beatdown.

Fox came back in to try and get something going through the air and threw a garbage-time touchdown. By then, the game was over, and UCF handed WVU its fifth loss of the season.

“We didn’t do anything well,” Rodriguez said. “Looked slow. Out of position… Poorly coached, poorly executed, poorly played, poorly everything. I’m hoping this is bottom.”