MOUNTAINEERS FINALLY GET BY SOUTH FLORIDA, WILL FACE NORTH CAROLINA IN MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL

By Matt Whitfield

Pat White and the Mountaineers probably didn’t have as good a season as they’d wanted, opening up with a 1-2 record and ending with a non-BCS Bowl birth. While the season was not what many Mountaineers players and fans expected they now at least have a win over South Florida, a team that has had dominated the Mountaineers defensively and had their number the past two years.

White’s last game dubbed the ‘White Out’ was truly that with fans decked out in white and even small amounts of snow on the ground. Although, the game was not as climatical as the events surrounding it, the Mountaineers held off a late South Florida rally making White and his fellow Mountaineers victorious before 48,000 plus at a snowy Mountaineer Field.

The game itself was rather anticlimactical with only two TD’s being scored, and only three points being put up in the 2nd Half. Only fitting, Pat White would lead the way for the Mountaineers on the day passing for 141 yards and a TD, and rushing for 40 yards. On Defense, Ellis Lankster and Sidney Glover would both intercept passes from Matt Grothe en route to the win.

Pat White and the senior Mountaineer class plays one more time when they take on ACC foe North Carolina in the Meineke Car Care Bowl, December 27, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Tar Heels will be playing their first bowl game since 2004 when they lost to Boston College in the Continental Tire Bowl. This years Tar Heels squad is much better than the 2004 team; and even was ranked in the Top 25 for a part of this season with wins over Boston College, Miami, and Georgia Tech. Despite the ACC being a weak conference this year, with the victories they have North Carolina should not be taken lightly.