MORGANTOWN - Now that the Mountaineers have completed their "November to remember," they are trying not to get dismembered in December.

West Virginia University, 8-3 overall and 4-2 in the Big East Conference, closes out its regular season Saturday with a trip to Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights, 8-3 and 3-3, pose a considerable threat to a WVU football team that has struggled to a 1-3 record outside of Morgantown.

"I am not pleased with our away record in any way, shape or form," said WVU coach Bill Stewart. "I am disappointed we have won only won game on the road."

That one win, a 34-13 victory at Syracuse, came in a game that started at noon. WVU and Rutgers will also kick off the game at noon, and it will be televised by ESPN.

"I'm going to tell our players to set their alarm, grab their lunch pail and go to work like all good West Virginians," Stewart said.

WVU has won the past 14 contests against the Scarlet Knights, and Stewart knows his team has to "finish the fight" to keep that streak alive.

To do that, the Mountaineers must play like they have been playing the past couple of weeks.

"I don't want to gush on them too much," said Rutgers coach Greg Schiano. "But they are playing football as good as anybody in the league right now. We are certainly going to have to perform our best to have an opportunity to be close in the game. I don't know what our best will look like, if it's good enough. I know this: If we don't play our best, we don't have a chance."

Stewart, likewise, believes his team will have to be at its best if it is to have a shot at beating Rutgers.

"I don't know which Rutgers team will show up the team that dismantled South Florida, the team that dismantled Louisville or the team that (lost to) Syracuse and Cincinnati," Stewart said. "I don't know which Mountaineer team will show up. Will it be the team who went down to South Florida and stunk the place up for three quarters? I hope it's the team we have seen lately."

Schiano said he seems some very basic similarities between WVU and South Florida, but not as many as people think. Rutgers defeated South Florida, who was ranked 23rd at the time, 31-0.

"I admire the job Greg Schiano did against South Florida," Stewart said. "Will he do that against Jarrett Brown? If he does, we have to be able to throw the ball deep over their heads."