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Forget ECU — remember when we beat Oklahoma?
And I’m not talking about the Fiesta Bowl. I’m talking about the game that was 26 years ago tomorrow. It’s certainly a much happier memory than what happened on September 11 seven years ago.
This retrospective on West Virginia’s 41-27 victory in 1982 over the Sooners in Norman is part of the weekly series I’ve been doing on significant events, people, places, etc. in WVU’s football history.
Check it out at this link.
Tags: Oklahoma, Patrick Southern, The DA, WVU
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Sep 10th, 2008
Wannstedt’s Failure is My Happiness
To give you my long-awaited answer to the question I posed here (and on a thread on BlueGoldNews.com): As a West Virginia fan, which “enemy” defeat this weekend was most satisfying to you, and why?
1. Pittsburgh (lost 27-17 at home to Bowling Green):
After hearing derisive “13-9″ chants and having to deal with losing to the Panthers in devastating fashion in seemingly every sport (men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and even wrestling) during the past year, it was nice to see Dave Wannstedt fall flat on his mustachioed face in his team’s home opener.
Pitt’s season-ending upset of West Virginia this past December gave Wannstedt’s program a lot of mileage. Recruiting was successful (although, according to the major online scouting services, he’s had solid classes for several years and been able to do nothing with them), and Pitt was even a “sexy” pick to win the Big East this year. The team even filled the final slot in the preseason AP Top 25 poll.
Perhaps no team since, well, WVU, has received so much positive press out of one game (the Mountaineers’ win over Georgia in the ‘06 Sugar Bowl gave a similar bounce). The only other likely candidate would be Boise State after its upset of Oklahoma in the ‘07 Fiesta Bowl.
One would have to think much of that progress was utterly and completely undone with a two-possession loss to a mediocre team from the Mid-American Conference. Let those who argue that a Pitt loss was bad for the Big East fret over such things — I’ll enjoy watching that program receive as much bad publicity as it possibly can.
Tags: ACC, BCS, Big East, Boise State, Bowling Green, Chris Beatty, Dave Wannstedt, Dominik Davenport, East Carolina, Fiesta Bowl, Frank Beamer, Georgia, John Beilein, Logan Heastie, Michigan, Mid-American Conference, Oklahoma, Pitt, Rich Rodriguez, Shawne Alston, Sugar Bowl, Tajh Boyd, Top 25, Utah, Virginia Tech, WVU
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Sep 2nd, 2008
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