Countdown to Kickoff
September 25, 2010 01:12 PM | General
BATON ROUGE, La. - Twenty second ranked West Virginia faces No. 15 LSU in a battle of ranked teams Saturday night at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. Tonight’s game is the first meeting between the two schools.
LSU owns a 3-0 record with wins over North Carolina, Vanderbilt and Mississippi State while West Virginia’s 3-0 start includes wins over Coastal Carolina, Marshall and Maryland. Tonight’s game will be televised nationally on ESPN2 (Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham and Jeannine Edwards) and will kickoff at approximately 9 p.m. ET. MSN’s coverage (Tony Caridi, Dwight Wallace, Jed Drenning and Hoppy Kercheval) begins with The Mountaineers Today at 8 p.m. Sirius Satellite Radio users can access MSN’s coverage on channel 113.
Westwood One Radio (Brad Sharn and Eddie George) will also cover the game nationwide.
Here is tonight’s Countdown to Kickoff:
10 – West Virginia has won TEN times when rushing for more than 200 yards under Coach Bill Stewart, compiling a 10-4 overall record.
9 – Senior running back Noel Devine has NINE runs of more than 62 yards during his career, including a career-long 92-yard run against Syracuse as a sophomore in 2008.
8 – West Virginia is tied with Georgia for the 11th-most wins over the last EIGHT years with 70. LSU is sixth with 76 wins.
7 – SEVEN true freshmen have seen action for the Mountaineers so far this season: Barry Brunetti, Ishmael Banks, Ivan McCartney, Travis Bell, Trey Johnson, Mike Dorsey and Doug Rigg.
6 – Offensive guard Eric Jobe has SIX knockdown blocks so far this year. Jeff Braun leads the offensive line with 14 knockdowns, followed by 12 from Josh Jenkins and 11 by Don Barclay.
5 – Devine is FIFTH among all active NCAA players with 4,965 all-purpose yards.
4 – Senior Jock Sanders is FOURTH on West Virginia’s career receiving list with 156 catches entering tonight’s game against LSU. Sanders needs five catches to move past Khori Ivy (1997-2000) for third place with 160 catches.
3 – Quarterback Geno Smith has thrown for more than 200 yards in all THREE games this year. Eleven of West Virginia’s 29 200-yard passing performances since 2001 have come since 2008.
2 – West Virginia has lost only TWICE in its last 64 games when scoring more than 30 points in a game. Those two losses came on the road at Louisville in 2006 and at Auburn in 2009.
1 – The Mountaineers have 30 players with at least ONE game’s worth of starting experience entering tonight’s game. Senior defensive lineman Scooter Berry leads the way with 31 career starts.
Enjoy tonight’s game and be sure to stop back afterward for complete postgame coverage.
LSU owns a 3-0 record with wins over North Carolina, Vanderbilt and Mississippi State while West Virginia’s 3-0 start includes wins over Coastal Carolina, Marshall and Maryland. Tonight’s game will be televised nationally on ESPN2 (Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham and Jeannine Edwards) and will kickoff at approximately 9 p.m. ET. MSN’s coverage (Tony Caridi, Dwight Wallace, Jed Drenning and Hoppy Kercheval) begins with The Mountaineers Today at 8 p.m. Sirius Satellite Radio users can access MSN’s coverage on channel 113.
Westwood One Radio (Brad Sharn and Eddie George) will also cover the game nationwide.
Here is tonight’s Countdown to Kickoff:
10 – West Virginia has won TEN times when rushing for more than 200 yards under Coach Bill Stewart, compiling a 10-4 overall record.
9 – Senior running back Noel Devine has NINE runs of more than 62 yards during his career, including a career-long 92-yard run against Syracuse as a sophomore in 2008.
8 – West Virginia is tied with Georgia for the 11th-most wins over the last EIGHT years with 70. LSU is sixth with 76 wins.
7 – SEVEN true freshmen have seen action for the Mountaineers so far this season: Barry Brunetti, Ishmael Banks, Ivan McCartney, Travis Bell, Trey Johnson, Mike Dorsey and Doug Rigg.
6 – Offensive guard Eric Jobe has SIX knockdown blocks so far this year. Jeff Braun leads the offensive line with 14 knockdowns, followed by 12 from Josh Jenkins and 11 by Don Barclay.
5 – Devine is FIFTH among all active NCAA players with 4,965 all-purpose yards.
4 – Senior Jock Sanders is FOURTH on West Virginia’s career receiving list with 156 catches entering tonight’s game against LSU. Sanders needs five catches to move past Khori Ivy (1997-2000) for third place with 160 catches.
3 – Quarterback Geno Smith has thrown for more than 200 yards in all THREE games this year. Eleven of West Virginia’s 29 200-yard passing performances since 2001 have come since 2008.
2 – West Virginia has lost only TWICE in its last 64 games when scoring more than 30 points in a game. Those two losses came on the road at Louisville in 2006 and at Auburn in 2009.
1 – The Mountaineers have 30 players with at least ONE game’s worth of starting experience entering tonight’s game. Senior defensive lineman Scooter Berry leads the way with 31 career starts.
Enjoy tonight’s game and be sure to stop back afterward for complete postgame coverage.
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