HOUSTON (AP) — Houston fired coach Major Applewhite on Sunday after two seasons. The school announced the move a little more than a week after the Cougars were trounced in a 70-14 loss to Army in the Armed Forces Bowl . Houston (8-5) lost four of its last five games after starting 7-1 ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Syracuse sent Eric Dungey out a winner, and got a good look at its future. Dungey capped his record-setting college career by throwing for 303 yards, Abdul Adams and Trishton Jackson combined to score three touchdowns in their Syracuse debuts and the 17th-ranked Orange got ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — The last time Jack Allison walked onto the turf at what is now called the Camping World Bowl, it was known as the Russell Athletic Bowl when he was a member of the University of Miami. However, Allison elected to leave the Hurricanes’ program following their 31-14 victory over a West Virginia team led by Skylar Howard and come to Morgantown. He sat during the 2017 season. Friday night, Allison returned to the site of that victory, but as the starting signal-caller for the Mountaineers. The consensus four-star prospect by ESPN, 247Sports, Rivals and Scout found ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Despite all the talk regarding players sitting out and getting ready for the NFL Draft, No. 16 West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen and No. 20 Syracuse’s Dino Babers are focused on the players that will be suiting up in today’s Camping World Bowl. “We’re going to try to win,” Holgorsen explained during Thursday’s press briefing “You line up. You try to win. I mean, this whole blitzing thing, I thought we agreed not to blitz. Syracuse blitzes like 80 percent of the time and they’re probably going to blitz every play. I thought we made a deal last ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer ORLANDO, Fla.— It’s easy to tell that West Virginia has plenty of respect for Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey, since at least one of the Mountaineers compared him to Will Grier. And that’s high praise. There is one distinct difference, of course: ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football coach Dana Holgorsen has earned a reputation as being somewhat of a gambler during his days as the head man with the No. 16 Mountaineers (8-3). The most recent example of that fact is WVU’s incoming recruiting class — a class void of any new ...
