WVU is #20 in all-time wins. The list goes up to 73 and Purdue is nowhere to be found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_teams_by_wins
Why would a "smart" school like Purdue invade
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WVU is #20 in all-time wins. The list goes up to 73 and Purdue is nowhere to be found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_teams_by_wins
Purdue is 9-8 in bowl games ... 17 total.
WVU is 14-19 in bowl games ... 33 total.
By percentage, they have a better record, but have competed in half the number of them.
And no BCS wins.
I repeat.. for 60 years they played OSU and Michigan while WVU toiled with Richmond and VMI.
WVU also played against Penn St, Pitt (when they were good), Cuse, VT, Miami, BC, etc. We also defeated the creampuffs like VMI. Richmond, & of course, Marshall.
They didn't always beat VMI and the Spiders but I 'll grant you that was 60 years ago but still it's a part of history! Actually i seem to remember WVU
beating Purdue in the Nehlen era.
For the first 100 years of Big Ten football....the conference its Champion to the Rose Bowl and that the only Bowl the conference would allowe a representative to play in...imagine going 10-1 and sitting at home!
Don't you agree it explains why WVU has been to more overall bowls than Purdue!
No. Because during that time in the Big 10 there were only 6-8 bowls total for everybody to go to. We were an independent for part of that time so had to be chosen at large when other conference champs had tie-ins. Basically we had to be better than everybody not in a conference to get into a bowl, and at that time there were a lot of independents.
You used my quote to respond, but then responded with a different topic. Threw me off.
I the gator Bowl in the late 50's was the first outside the Big Four , maybe not seems like the Liberty Bowl has been around forever as well. Sun Bowl maybe around in the mid 50's. Peach Bowl came in the late 60's and WVU played in that a lot it seems. I can't remember whe nthe big 10 opened up bowl participation other than the Rose but seems like it might have been as late as the mid 70's.
No smack now because this is interesting. I can't find anything yet that chronologically goes through the history of the bowls. However, in 1953:
1953 College Football Bowl Games
Bowl Winning Team Losing Team
Cotton #6 Rice Owls 28 #13 Alabama Crimson Tide 6
Gator #12 Texas Tech Red Raiders 35 #17 Auburn Tigers 13
Orange #4 Oklahoma Sooners 7 #1 Maryland Terrapins 0
Rose #3 Michigan State Spartans 28 #5 UCLA Bruins 20
Sugar #8 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 42 #10 West Virginia Mountaineers 19
Sun Texas Western Miners 37 Mississippi Southerners 14
Tangerine Arkansas State Indians 7 East Texas State Lions 7
I didn't post it because we were in it, but in 1953, those were the 7 bowls available. WVU was playing in the Southern Conference at that time.
Very interesting! Sun Bowl been around since 1935...WVU has played in that one before I know, they lost a heartbreaker to Okla St that I remember.
Wasn't that game played in a driving snowstorm? I seem to rememebr that points were precious in that tilt. I was actually at one of the early Peach Bowls when you played NCSU with Lou Holtz at the helm.Yeah, an OK St team with both Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders.
Yes, that's exactly right. The "Sun" Bowl, being played in a snowstorm.
I don't remember when that was exactly but I was probably 10-12 and remember watching it with my dad.
Nor do I confuse WVU with the top athletic budgets and historical accomplishments of the ultra elite. However, WVU, through the years has proven itself as the 14th winningest college football program in history. WVU has played for 1 1/2 national championships in football, 3 BCS trophy wins, P5 conference, and a self sufficient athletic program. I won't say WVU is an elite program, but they are a top tier program in both football and basketball (which Dan D admitted in a recent interview).....no doubt for the objective viewer.
Marshall could get as many tickets to a Morgantown matchup as they wanted (WVU cannot in Huntington..... WVU fans had to buy Marshall season tickets to get enough tickets and it wasn't enough). Playing MOST games in Morgantown only makes sense, and is more than most P5 schools .... if not all .... would do (Play more than a 1-1 with several years in between with a looming threat of a buyout). We offered a 7 year in a row series with a potential for a 4-3 split. WVU conceded more than any other P5 school would do. Doesn't seem like that offer and anything similar could be considered anything other than, "we tried"
