Sugar Bowl Champions

WOW, What a game that was last night. West Virginia became the 2005-6 Sugar Bowl Champions by defeated the University of Georgia 38-35 last night in the first and only Sugar Bowl game not played in New Orleans.

West Virginia went into Georgia's back yard and jumped ahead to an early 28-0 lead and never relinquished the lead. It was a bit of a nailbiter at times, but Rich Rodriguez had this team ready to play.

West Virginia finishes the season with an 11-1 record for the third time in school history (1988, 1993), but this is the first time we did it by winning our bowl game. It was sweet to sit there and watch us finally win the Big Game.

West Virginia was led by two Freshmen, Steve Slaton and Pat White. Slaton set a Sugar Bowl rushing for 204 yards, a personal career best at this time and managed to become the third WVU Freshman to even rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Amos Zereoue and Avon Cobourne being the other two freshmen WVU Running Backs to accomplish this task.

Pat White came within about 50 yards of ALSO rushing for 1,000 yards this season as a Freshman. We will definitely end up in the top 10 when the final polls come out, I'm hoping that we will finish 5th or 6th in the final polls which should be out in a few days.