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Here's an interesting bit of second guessing history...from Rivals
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:11 pm
What if …
Four years ago, The Dash witnessed one of the biggest upsets in recent college football history: Pittsburgh 13, West Virginia 9. The Panthers had a losing record. The Mountaineers needed only to win to play in the BCS Championship Game. They were favored by a whopping 29 points. But from the start, things went wrong for West Virginia. Star kicker Pat McAfee stunningly missed a couple of short field goals. Star quarterback Pat White was injured. And when the Panthers refused to buckle, an unfathomable result helped alter the course of college football. Four years later, with the rivals poised to play Friday, The Dash wonders: what if West Virginia had won?
A few theories:
Ohio State (23), freed from having to face the SEC speed of LSU, would have won the national title over the Mountaineers.
Tressel
Jim Tressel (24), with two national titles in five years, would have been much harder to move out last spring amid the NCAA violations on his watch. He may well have survived the storm.
Rich Rodriguez (25) would still be the coach of the Mountaineers. The school would have done whatever it took to keep a guy who brought them to the brink of a title. The Big East would have more cache – and maybe more members. Arizona would still be searching for a new coach.
Nobody would ever have heard of sunny Bill Stewart. And Dana Holgorsen (26) would be the rookie head coach at Pitt.
It would have been a heck of a recruiting battle between Rodriguez and Tressel for Terrelle Pryor (27). If Rodriguez had won the battle, the tattoo disaster may never have hit Ohio State.
Les Miles (28) would be the coach at Michigan. Without a national title to play for in ‘07, he would have left his damn strong LSU team for the Wolverines when they called. Michigan never crash lands, never goes on probation, and in tandem with Ohio State keeps the Big Ten from slipping off the sport’s top tier.
His replacement at LSU, Bobby Petrino (29), would be winning big while Arkansas struggles in the post-Houston Nutt Era under Jimbo Fisher (30), who left his successor gig at Florida State to take a big-money offer from the Razorbacks.
Without a successor in place, Bobby Bowden would have been given one more year in 2010 before giving way to Gus Malzahn (31).
And the SEC (32) would not have five straight titles.
Four years ago, The Dash witnessed one of the biggest upsets in recent college football history: Pittsburgh 13, West Virginia 9. The Panthers had a losing record. The Mountaineers needed only to win to play in the BCS Championship Game. They were favored by a whopping 29 points. But from the start, things went wrong for West Virginia. Star kicker Pat McAfee stunningly missed a couple of short field goals. Star quarterback Pat White was injured. And when the Panthers refused to buckle, an unfathomable result helped alter the course of college football. Four years later, with the rivals poised to play Friday, The Dash wonders: what if West Virginia had won?
A few theories:
Ohio State (23), freed from having to face the SEC speed of LSU, would have won the national title over the Mountaineers.
Tressel
Jim Tressel (24), with two national titles in five years, would have been much harder to move out last spring amid the NCAA violations on his watch. He may well have survived the storm.
Rich Rodriguez (25) would still be the coach of the Mountaineers. The school would have done whatever it took to keep a guy who brought them to the brink of a title. The Big East would have more cache – and maybe more members. Arizona would still be searching for a new coach.
Nobody would ever have heard of sunny Bill Stewart. And Dana Holgorsen (26) would be the rookie head coach at Pitt.
It would have been a heck of a recruiting battle between Rodriguez and Tressel for Terrelle Pryor (27). If Rodriguez had won the battle, the tattoo disaster may never have hit Ohio State.
Les Miles (28) would be the coach at Michigan. Without a national title to play for in ‘07, he would have left his damn strong LSU team for the Wolverines when they called. Michigan never crash lands, never goes on probation, and in tandem with Ohio State keeps the Big Ten from slipping off the sport’s top tier.
His replacement at LSU, Bobby Petrino (29), would be winning big while Arkansas struggles in the post-Houston Nutt Era under Jimbo Fisher (30), who left his successor gig at Florida State to take a big-money offer from the Razorbacks.
Without a successor in place, Bobby Bowden would have been given one more year in 2010 before giving way to Gus Malzahn (31).
And the SEC (32) would not have five straight titles.
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:13 pm to CEOTiger
Yes I thought this was interesting. Perhaps changed college football as we know it.
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:15 pm to CEOTiger
If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean right now
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:18 pm to Bottom9
Good read, but that is quite a lot of 'what-ifs'
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:38 pm to CEOTiger
Sorry you lost me after..
What if …
Four years ago, The Dash
What if …
Four years ago, The Dash
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:49 pm to chilidog
Crazy - not to mention that game included the most blatant referee cheating I've ever seen in any sport, including NFL and they still lost. Boggles the mind.
Posted on 11/23/11 at 4:49 pm to CEOTiger
serious butterfly effect
:mindblown:
:mindblown:
Posted on 11/23/11 at 5:26 pm to CEOTiger
Interesting, but a helluva lot of speculation there...
Posted on 11/23/11 at 5:29 pm to CEOTiger
quote:
Les Miles (28) would be the coach at Michigan. Without a national title to play for in ‘07, he would have left his damn strong LSU team for the Wolverines when they called.
This is just wrong. Miles told the world he wasn't going to Michigan indirectly before the SECCG in the "damn strong" speech, and then again directly after the game when he said he loved Michigan but he wasn't going there. All of this transpired before WVU lost to Pitt.
Posted on 11/23/11 at 5:33 pm to CEOTiger
In an alternate universe.......
Oh the possibility of probabilities
Oh the possibility of probabilities
Posted on 11/23/11 at 5:43 pm to medtiger
quote:
This is just wrong. Miles told the world he wasn't going to Michigan indirectly before the SECCG in the "damn strong" speech, and then again directly after the game when he said he loved Michigan but he wasn't going there.
He said that, yes. But he was gone. Maybe not the very next day, but he was leaving.
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