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There have been a lot of overtime games in bowls recently; the Orange Bowl was not one of them. It *was* one of those high-scoring bowl games we've seen in the last few weeks: Oregon-Wisconsin, Stanford-Oklahoma State. But this was closer to being Baylor-Washington again. It's so high-scoring we're not even going to recap everything that happened.
In fact, it's not even over yet, or close to it. It's early in the 2nd half, and West Virginia is ahead 56-20 at the time.
Clemson could come back—they've done it all year, and they score points fast, but it would break a record for the biggest comeback of all time.
The key play came in the first half when Clemson was behind just 21-17, and knocking on the door to take the lead. Andre Ellington took the handoff and looked like he might have scored. In fact a couple of Clemson players signalled touchdown.
But a few West Virginia players were sprinting the other direction. Did they think they made a great stop? No...one of them (Darwin Cook) had the ball.
He ran it back for a touchdown and a 28-17 lead. And after that the floodgates were open. Clemson cut the lead to 28-20 but then the Mountaineers went on hyperdrive as the half ended, scoring three more touchdowns for a 49-20 halftime lead.
They started the second half with another touchdown. Tavon Austin has been the main weapon, scoring about three time. Make that four times, West Virginia just went up 63-20.
We'll update this with more official information. But that's all you really need to know.
UPDATE: The Mountaineers won, 70-33. Geno Smith finished with 401 passing yards and 6 TD passes, 4 to Tavon Austin. West Virginia had 589 yards of total offense, Clemson 443.
West Virginia finished 10-3 and got their first win over a top 25 team in a big way. Clemson fell to 10-4.
More previews and results: View the complete 2011-2012 bowl game schedule.
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ha dats crazy
Posted by: peeps | April 07, 2012 at 04:57 PM