• New here? Register here now for access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Plus, stay connected and follow BP on Instagram @buckeyeplanet and Facebook.

West Virginia 19 - South Florida 24 [Final]

Jump to latest Follow Reply
plum diamonds buckeye planet
Sort by date Sort by votes
Yeah, I think the most annoying statement I heard from any analyst this year would have to be those few who said that the Big East was as good as any conference out there. Wish I could name specifics, but regardless...simply a joke.
 
Upvote 0
osugrad21;670088; said:
Well, I wish I would have stayed in the Ohio Valley a few more days...I'd like to have some further conversation with all of the WVU fans who told me tOSU could not handle the Mountaineers.
Click to expand...

Now, now, it's not like they could read the press reports, is it? Would that be fair? :slappy:
 
Upvote 0
Dispatch

SOUTH FLORIDA 24 NO. 7 WEST VIRGINIA 19
Mountaineers? shot at BCS bowl no longer bullish
Sunday, November 26, 2006
John Raby
ASSOCIATED PRESS



MORGANTOWN, W.Va. ? Scratch unstoppable from the ways to describe Steve Slaton, Pat White and West Virginia?s running game. South Florida saw to that.
The Bulls scored on a fumble return and held the nation?s second-best rushing and scoring offense to less than half of its averages in a 24-19 win over the No. 7 Mountaineers yesterday in the Big East.
Matt Grothe ran for a touchdown and passed for one as South Florida (8-4, 4-3) handed West Virginia (9-2, 4-2) its first home loss in nine games ? a loss that could end the Mountaineers? shot at a Bowl Championship Series bid.
South Florida coach Jim Leavitt described it as a milestone in the school?s 11-year football history, surpassing a win over Louisville last year.
"This probably was the biggest because we won here and it?s so hard to win here," Leavitt said. "It?s hard to beat these guys anywhere."
For a team averaging 41 points and 330 rushing yards, West Virginia looked listless.
"That?s the worst our offense has played all year. Some of our best runs today, we?re losing yards," West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez said. "They?re 18-, 19-, 20-year-old kids. I?m not going to drop them into the grease because we didn?t play well."
Slaton, the nation?s No. 2 rusher, ran for a season-low 43 yards, 115 below his average. The Mountaineers didn?t score their first touchdown until midway through the third quarter and were limited to 132 yards rushing.
"They used speed to their advantage," Slaton said. "They really came to play."
White threw two touchdown passes to Brandon Myles, but the Mountaineers squandered several other chances. They had scored touchdowns on 77 percent of their drives inside the 20 entering the game, yet failed to reach the end zone four times from the red zone against South Florida, including their first three drives.
Slaton fumbled the ball away at the South Florida 1 on the first drive of the second half. West Virginia got the ball back at the South Florida 28 after a punt and White found a leaping Myles with a 15-yard TD pass in the left corner of the end zone. But White?s conversion pass fell incomplete to make it 14-12.
Grothe, a redshirt freshman, was 21 of 29 for 270 yards and helped keep the Mountaineers offense off the field.
He took the Bulls 70 yards on the next series, finding Ean Randolph with a 21-yard TD pass late in the third quarter. He later converted two thirddown passes to keep alive a 14-play drive that resulted in an 18-yard field goal by Delbert Alvarado midway through the fourth quarter and a 24-12 lead.
White found Myles with a 44-yard scoring pass with 5:16 left to cut the deficit to 24-19. South Florida failed to get a first down on its next drive and West Virginia got the ball back at its 15. But a pass went off Myles? hands and Trae Williams intercepted the tipped ball with 1:54 left.
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top