NIT pool!!!

What do you have against Webby?

 

200-something degrees Fahrenheit, huh?!! Still not hot enough to stop State!

 

State and WVa about to tip.
Clemson and Air Force later.

State favored by 26-28 in most Vegas betting houses for the opener.
Should be a rout.

 

So help me, West Virginia's Mountaineer mascot is AWESOME.
Leather buckskin clothes, coonskin cap, musket and - most importantly - a raging just-out-of-the-woods brown beard.
Is that thing real?
How do you grow such a thing?
Does he wear it around campus and pick up chicks with a facial hair fetish?
Inquiring minds want to know.

 

By the way, I know nobody cares, but this has been a heck of a game. 61-60 WVU with 35 seconds to go... WVU has the ball.
Sounds like it's much less of a blowout than anyone expected.

 

You were saying?

 

Actually, I was the only one who predicted a blowout.
In jest, too, but in hopes.
Great comeback from about 14 down by Mountaineers.
Last-second 3 wins it. Congrats to WVa
And to linotype, who likely wins the pool

 

Bully a 26 to 28 point favorite in Vegas? You sure it's Las Vegas and not Starkvegas? The ones I saw had State favored by 1.5.

 

Part of the search for the new Mountaineer each fall is a beard-growing contest during Mountaineer Week. Most of the prospective mascots enter.

 

I find it hard to imagine that MSU would have been a 26-point favorite to anybody, but I don't pay that much attention to such things. I suspect nobody was more surprised than the Bulldogs with the Mountaineers didn't wilt.

 

Nearly 30-point favorites?
Maybe it was Florida over the rest of the NCAA Final Four field that I was thinking about.

 

West Virginia-Clemson. It's like a much-delayed Gator Bowl.