NCAA Football Result: West Virginia vs Oklahoma
West Virginia Mountaineers smothers Oklahoma Sooners 48-28 to win the Fiesta Bowl on Wednesday night.
Led by West Virginia Mountaineers quarterback Pat White, who ran for 150 yards and threw for 176 and two touchdowns for the Mountaineers. West Virginia Mountaineers running back Noel Devine replaced Steve Slaton and ran for 108 yards and two touchdowns — a 17-yarder and a 65-yarder that clinched the game in the fourth quarter. The West Virginia Mountaineers became the first of six teams to win under an interim coach in this bowl season. They improved to 2-0 in the Bowl Championship Series.
Oklahoma Sooners 11-3 endured another disappointment on the same field where the Oklahoma Sooners lost a classic Fiesta Bowl to Boise State one year ago. The Oklahoma Sooners have dropped four straight BCS games.
Oklahoma Sooners had no answer for Mountaineers’ quarterback Pat White, whose 79-yard touchdown pass to West Virginia Mountaineers wide receiver Tito Gonzales in the fourth quarter was the longest in Mountaineers bowl history.
West Virginia Mountaineers fourth-rated defense limited the potent Sooners to well below their scoring average of 43.4 points per game, third in the nation. West Virginia Mountaineers harassed Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford, sacking the nation’s top-rated passer three times and intercepting him in the end zone. Bradford completed 21 of 33 passes for 242 yards and two touchdowns.
West Virginia Mountaineers fullback Owen Schmitt broke a career-long 57-yard touchdown run to put the Mountaineers ahead 13-3 midway through the quarter. The 260-pound Schmitt shrugged off a tackle by 197-pound safety Darien Williams, wheeled around the end and sprinted down the right sideline for the score.
West Virginia Mountaineers jumped ahead 3-0 on a 38-yard field goal by Pat McAfee midway through the first quarter. McAfee added a 42-yarder in the final seconds of the period to put West Virginia up 6-0. Oklahoma’s first scoring drive covered 54 yards, and the Sooners needed a pair of 15-yard West Virginia penalties — on the same play — to set up a 37-yard field goal by Garrett Hartley.
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