Here's an interesting article, which is a benefit of playing in the B12 - and beating Texas in Austin last weekend. This wouldn't ever have been written about WVU if the Mountaineers were still playing in The BEast - no matter who we beat - much less written early in October...

Can West Virginia make a title run?

Quote:The West Virginia Mountaineers have come close to the national title -- logging three BCS bowl wins over the past seven years. It was never closer than 2007, when an unranked Pitt team with a losing record played spoiler to a national championship-bound Mountaineers team.

This year's team looks like it may be even better than the Pat White-Steve Slaton-Noel Devine trio that carried West Virginia to an 11-win season in 2007 -- tied for the best mark in school history.

West Virginia has ascended to No. 4 in this week's poll, the highest of any Big 12 team and joins No. 6 Kansas State as the conference's best hope of a national championship. In the program's first year as a Big 12 member, is a national title in the cards? There's plenty of evidence to suggest the answer is "yes," but also plenty to suggest it is "no."