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The West Virginia Mountaineers college football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the West Virginia University in the Big 12 Conference (Big 12). Since the establishment of the team in 1891, West Virginia University has appeared in 41 bowl games. [1]
0–9. 1922 San Diego East-West Christmas Classic; 1938 Sun Bowl; 1949 Sun Bowl; 1954 Sugar Bowl; 1964 Liberty Bowl; 1969 Peach Bowl; 1972 Peach Bowl; 1975 Peach Bowl
West Virginia’s Thornton Jalen (87) consoles North Carolina’s Kaimon Rucker (25) following the Mountaineers’ 30-10 victory in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at Bank ...
The 1989 Sunkist Fiesta Bowl, played on Monday, January 2, was the 18th edition of the Fiesta Bowl. It featured the top-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the third-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers. With both teams undefeated, the Fiesta Bowl was the stage for the "national championship" for the second time in three
UNC won at the 1996 Gator Bowl and West Virginia beat the Tar Heels in Charlotte in 2008. UNC lost to South Carolina in the 2021 Duke’s Mayo Bowl. ... After losing six of their last seven bowl ...
The Heels and Mountaineers faced off in the 2008 bowl in Charlotte, then known as the Meineke Bowl, with West Virginia winning 31-30. Hakeen Nicks caught eight balls for 217 yards and three TDs ...
This was West Virginia's fourth straight bowl appearance and first Bluebonnet Bowl. They started off well, winning their first three games and at one point ranked 12th in the polls before losing their last three games. TCU improved seven games from last season under Wacker in his second season, in their first bowl appearance since 1965.
Despite losing its bowl game, West Virginia finished with a 9–4 record and was ranked in both the final Coaches (No. 20) and AP (No. 25) polls for the first time since 1993. The momentum generated from the 2002 campaign was short-lived as the Mountaineers stumbled to a 1–4 record early in the 2003 season.