Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia 48, Oklahoma 28 (final)

[osugrad21]

DDN

West Virginia Wins Without Rodriguez

By ANDREW BAGNATO
AP College Football Writer
GLENDALE, Ariz. ? Rich who? The West Virginia Mountaineers didn't need coach Rich Rodriguez. They had Pat White, and their elusive quarterback led them to a surprising 48-28 romp over No. 3 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl on Wednesday night.
White ran for 150 yards and threw for 176 and two touchdowns for the 11th-ranked Mountaineers, who rushed for 349 yards, most allowed by Oklahoma in a bowl game.
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West Virginia quarterback Patrick White, top, is brought down by Oklahoma's Darien Williams in the first half of the Fiesta Bowl college football game, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008 in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Since arriving in the desert last week, the Mountaineers (11-2) said they had bonded behind interim coach Bill Stewart, who took over when Rodriguez bolted for Michigan in mid-December. And they vowed to rebound from a 13-9 loss to Pitt that knocked them out of the Bowl Championship Series title game.
The Mountaineers were right on both counts, turning in an emotional effort and overcoming the loss of star tailback Steve Slaton to a first-quarter leg injury. Noel Devine replaced Slaton and ran for 108 yards and two touchdowns ? a 17-yarder and a 65-yarder that clinched the game in the fourth quarter.
The Mountaineers became the first of six teams to win under an interim coach in this bowl season. They improved to 2-0 in the Bowl Championship Series.



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[AJHawkfan]

Couldn't have said it better.

Btw, what's that make Stoops in the BCS now? 1-9? Either NC win or bust apparently.

sarcasm at least, they're not in the Big 10 /sarcasm

The question got me wondering, so I dug up some old records.

the last 10 years' bowl results for Oklahomie looks like this:

2007 season - L Fiesta Bowl - 48-28 to West Virginia
2006 season - L Fiesta Bowl - 43-42(OT) to Boise St.
2005 season - W Holiday Bowl - 17-14 over Oregon
2004 season - L Orange Bowl - 55-19 to USC
2003 season - L Sugar Bowl - 21-14 to LSU
2002 season - W Rose Bowl - 34-14 over Washington State
2001 season - W Cotton Bowl - 10-3 over Arkansas
2000 season - W Orange Bowl - 13-2 over Florida State
1999 season - L Independence Bowl - 27-25 to Ole Miss
1998 season - No Bowl Game

How Stoops and OKlahoma continues to get love from the media, especially in light of their Bowl performance over the past 5 years, is a mystery to me...

 

[sandgk]

And I will personally be talking about Big East speed in relation to the Big 12 for the next 365 days.

Please - don't - :tongue2:

Wow. Who was the ONE person on this board to bet on WVU?

One lucky WVU fan.

"If you put your nose in the air just right, you can smell the couch cushions all the way from Morgantown"

By far the best line of the night - classic.

 

[Dryden]

Yep. That sort of beat down game deserves a name, like "The Second Trail of Tears" - or - "The Day West Virginia fucked Oklahomo like they were first cousins"..... or something.

It sounds pretty cool if you say it out loud in a Keith Jackson voice.

 

[bkochmc]

It sounds pretty cool if you say it out loud in a Keith Jackson voice.

Be sure to throw a "Woah Nellie!" somewhere in there.

 

[Piney]

Man, the vbookie cleaned up last night. Thank god I forgot to bet on this game :p

 

[craigblitz]

One person bet 100 vbuks... Awesome! hahahha

 

[Liljake351]

Good job WVU. I really had OU in this one, but they showed they could play hard even after that asshole rodriguez abandonded them.

 

[HoltWVU75]

well I see Im the only one who bet on us.....little homerism on my part

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

The question got me wondering, so I dug up some old records.

the last 10 years' bowl results for Oklahomie looks like this:

2007 season - L Fiesta Bowl - 48-28 to West Virginia
2006 season - L Fiesta Bowl - 43-42(OT) to Boise St.
2005 season - W Holiday Bowl - 17-14 over Oregon
2004 season - L Orange Bowl - 55-19 to USC
2003 season - L Sugar Bowl - 21-14 to LSU
2002 season - W Rose Bowl - 34-14 over Washington State
2001 season - W Cotton Bowl - 10-3 over Arkansas
2000 season - W Orange Bowl - 13-2 over Florida State
1999 season - L Independence Bowl - 27-25 to Ole Miss
1998 season - No Bowl Game

How Stoops and OKlahoma continues to get love from the media, especially in light of their Bowl performance over the past 5 years, is a mystery to me...

Not to mention, if yesterday's results established one thing it's that the Big XII must be a fraud as desperately slow. Likewise, OU simply doesn't have the athletes. Can't compete. Fraud. Out speeded.

 

[JCOSU86]

A couple of weeks ago I went over to the Nebraska Scout site to gauge their reaction to hiring Bo Pelini. There was a thread about OSU over there. One Cornholer genius said Chokelohomo would beat the Buckeyes by 3 TDs. To that I say:

"Hey, fucktard, got any stock tips you fucking dipshit"



Should go back and say that.

 

[muffler dragon]

The question got me wondering, so I dug up some old records.

the last 10 years' bowl results for Oklahomie looks like this:

2007 season - L Fiesta Bowl - 48-28 to West Virginia
2006 season - L Fiesta Bowl - 43-42(OT) to Boise St.
2005 season - W Holiday Bowl - 17-14 over Oregon
2004 season - L Orange Bowl - 55-19 to USC
2003 season - L Sugar Bowl - 21-14 to LSU
2002 season - W Rose Bowl - 34-14 over Washington State
2001 season - W Cotton Bowl - 10-3 over Arkansas
2000 season - W Orange Bowl - 13-2 over Florida State
1999 season - L Independence Bowl - 27-25 to Ole Miss
1998 season - No Bowl Game

How Stoops and OKlahoma continues to get love from the media, especially in light of their Bowl performance over the past 5 years, is a mystery to me...

Record: 4-5
Points For: 202
Points Against: 227

It's a mystery to anyone with a football conscience.

Btw, heard here first this morning on Cowherd's talk-show: "I'm so sick of hearing about the spread offense. USC doesn't run a spread offense."

I don't think this guy listens to his own clips throughout the season.

 

[t_BuckeyeScott]

All right, so I lost v6,000 on the Sooners. I've been waiting for this, this is awesome. Look at my location. Ever since the Bowl Selection Show the Sooner fans have been angry about the Buckeyes being in the National Championship Game. They would say things like the Buckeyes wouldn't be there if they played a full shedule ( a reference to the lack of a Big 10 Championship Game). It never bothers them when I tell them exactly 10 teams out of 119 Division 1a (yes I refuse to use the new name) played 13 games instead of the 12 the Buckeyes played.

They like to say that teams that play/win a conference championship game should get bonus points in the BCS. Forget that the BCS doesn't really work on points. Forget that only 5 of 11 division 1a conferences and 3 of 6 BCS conferences have conference championship games. Forget that noone forced the Big 12 to play a conference championship game. Forget that by rule a conference must have 12 teams to have a championship game. Forget that it would take the 3 other BCS conferences that don't have a conferece games to give their teams a disadvantage by allowing such nonsense. Forget that the Missourri win boosted the Sooners in all the computers and the polls.

They like to say that the Buckeyes didn't play anyone out of conference. I say neither did they: North Texas, Utah, Tulsa and Miami. Please.

They like to say that the Buckeyes only won the weak Big 10. I say I'll take it over OU's slate of Conference games.
Colorado Northwestern
Texas Michigan
Missouri Illinois
aTm Penn State
Tech Purdue
Baylor Michigan State
Iowa State Minnesotta
Oklahoma State Wisconsin

They like to say But its not our fault Miami sucks, they were good when we scheduled them. I say its not our fault Washington sucks they were good when we scheduled them.

They say Ohio State is slow. I pointed to the NFL, now I can just ask about the superior Big East speed.

They say Ohio State shouldn' t be in the National Championship Game. I said OU sure doesn't deserve it when they had a chance to win out and they give up 500 yards passing to Tech. And now they get blown out by WVU, the same WVU that got beat by Pitt, PITT.

Thank you , thank you WVU.

Edit: I'm done.

 

[Buckeye86]

Not to mention, if yesterday's results established one thing it's that the Big XII must be a fraud as desperately slow. Likewise, OU simply doesn't have the athletes. Can't compete. Fraud. Out speeded.

Or the talking heads could go in the opposite direction. Clearly the results of the game are because WVU is the best college football team in history like the last team that blew Oklahoma out in a bowl game.

 

[methomps]

One person bet 100 vbuks... Awesome! hahahha

Imagine if the vbookie was set so that the winners split the money from the losers.