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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A day has passed, which is more than Jarrett Brown was allowed to do in the first half against Florida State Friday. Twenty-four hours, which is enough to begin reflecting on the situation the West Virginia football program finds itself in, reflecting without the emotion that comes from the Gator Bowl defeat [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — There is one thing you can say with some certainty this morning. West Virginia’s 33-21 loss to Florida State in the Gator Bowl was its worst loss of this decade. Unless you want to count the basketball team’s 77-62 loss at Purdue. Either way, Friday was a miserable day to be a [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — All season long, fans clamored for Geno Smith. Especially after the true freshman quarterback entered in relief of starter Jarrett Brown on the first series of the Marshall game and led a 24-7 win in Morgantown. Well, they got their wish Friday in the biggest game of the year. Brown suffered an [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – There were not a lot of bright spots to come out of West Virginia’s 33-21 Gator Bowl loss to Florida State Friday afternoon. The Mountaineers were stopped short of a 10-win season and finished 9-4, no better or worse than a year ago. A senior class that hoped to win its 41st [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – When 27 days transpire between games, the benefit to preparation is obvious. Time is a commodity college football teams rarely have throughout the season, yet have in abundance in the postseason. Now that he has this gift in his possession, Jeff Mullen is supposed to spread the joy to the waiting masses [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Jock Sanders has a lot to be thankful for this Christmas. After a year that included an arrest — his second in two years — and a six-month suspension, West Virginia's junior wide receiver says he'll have the best Christmas present he could imagine. For the first time since his first child [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Gator Bowl is adding extra seats for Bobby Bowden’s finale. Two days after the bowl announced a sellout for its Jan. 1 game between Florida State and No. 18 West Virginia, organizers decided to add temporary bleachers — much like the city does for the annual Florida-Georgia game at Jacksonville Municipal [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – It’s now official: West Virginia will play Florida State in the 2010 Konica Minolta Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., on New Year’s Day. Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, home of the 2010 Konica Minolta Gator Bowl. Submitted photo It is the third time West Virginia has faced Florida State in the Gator Bowl, losing [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia’s postgame locker room scene Saturday was a wild one and wildly different than what the Mountaineers experienced after an Oct. 30 loss at South Florida. Coach Bill Stewart scanned the room and looked everyone in the eye that night some five weeks ago, and saw tears and combinations of angry and [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Brian Goin, the chairman of the Gator Bowl’s selection committee, entered West Virginia’s locker room Saturday afternoon to extend an invitation to his game Jan. 1. The 24th-ranked Mountaineers had just defeated Rutgers, 24-21, to finish the regular season 9-3 and 5-2 in the Big East. That, apparently, was all that mattered to [...]