Sorry - a misprint on my part - it is .598 for the winning percentage - and it is still the third best overall winning percentage in the Big 12.
And yes our schedules have changed drastically. Very local until the 1920s then once the New Mountaineer Field was built in 24 we did venture out and get some home and home deals with some of our future conference foes - OSU, KU, KSU and some other larger schools. Then the movement into the Southern Conference that began with teams like Md, WF, NCST and South Carolina. But they dropped out. An upgrade beginning in 69 but still a few Southern Schools. Then the big time beginning in 1980. It became easier in 2004 and back up in 2011.
Just about everyone played local schedules back in the day.
For instance, Pitt and Cornell shared the mythical national championship 100 years ago.
The unbeaten
1915 Panthers rolled by the likes of Westminster, Navy, Carlisle Industrial School, Penn, Allegheny, Washington & Jefferson, Carnegie Tech and Penn State.
The mighty
Big Red of Cornell stayed undefeated through a gauntlet consisting of Gettysburg, Oberlin, Williams, Bucknell, Harvard, Virginia Polytechnic, Michigan, Washington & Lee and Penn.
West Virginia, by the way, went 5-2-1 (some sources say 6-1-1) in 1915 under the coaching of
Sol Metzger.
AN EXCERPT FROM HIS WIKI:
The 1915 squad improved to a record of 5–2–1 and gained some national attention. The team scored 216 points to 25 by their opponents. The two losses were a 7–0 loss to traditional power the University of Pennsylvania to start the season, and a forfeit to Washington and Lee.
During the Washington & Lee game, Metzger pulled his team off the field alleging rough play while leading 8–6. The only other blemish was a tie to Washington & Jefferson which later defeated traditional power
Yale. Metzger was offered the coaching position for the next season but turned it down, instead signing to coach Washington and Jefferson College