West Virginia Loses To South Florida in Morgantown

For all of the Big East Football Conference lovers out there, it's official. The conference isn't what it was cracked up to be prior to the Louisville-West Virginia matchup weeks ago.

Why? Rutgers gets blown out by Cincinnati, now West Virginia, which many deemed as having the most potent offense in the country, with Pat White and Steve Slaton, bows down to South Florida. Let's give the Bulls some credit though, they did come into the game 7-4 and 3-3 in the Big East, it's not like they were Temple.

South Florida completely shut down Steve Slaton, holding him to only 43 yards on the ground today. That's 115 yards below his season average per game. West Virginia, just looked like the were in a haze today, and the outcome was a 24-19 loss. Not only that but USF held West Virginia without a first half touchdown, which no team had done in 17 straight games vs. the Mountaineers.

"That's the worst our offense has played all year. Some of our best runs today, we're losing yards," said West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez.

West Virginia will still have to play Rutgers next week, which could be their third loss of the season if they don't prevail, tough for a team that had a many gave a longshot to get into the BCS, even with their loss to Louisville.

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