welcome back to first look. i m veronica de la cruz. in sport now, the west virginia mountaineers barely eked into the top 25, but last night against clemson in the orange bowl, they looked like the top-ranked team in the universe. here is fred roggin. good morning. every bcs bowl game has been a close one until last night. to the orange bowl in miami. clemson and west virginia. this was a good game for the first quarter. then the mountaineers started to pull away. smith flipped the ball to tavon austin. looked like a handoff but it was actually a pass. he threw four of six touchdowns that way. west virginia up 21-17. next play changed the entire game. clemson a yard away from taking the lead. ellington stripped at the goal line. darwin cook came out of the pile with the ball and he was gone, 99 yards the other way. that opened the floodgates. west virginia set a school and orange bowl record for points, embarrassed clemson 70, yep,
welcome back to first look. i m veronica de la cruz. in sport now, the west virginia mountaineers barely eked into the top 25, but last night against clemson in the orange bowl, they looked like the top-ranked team in the universe. here is fred roggin. good morning. every bcs bowl game has been a close one until last night. to the orange bowl in miami. clemson and west virginia. this was a good game for the first quarter. then the mountaineers started to pull away. smith flipped the ball to tavon austin. looked like a handoff but it was actually a pass. he threw four of six touchdowns that way. west virginia up 21-17. next play changed the entire game. clemson a yard away from taking the lead. ellington stripped at the goal line. darwin cook came out of the pile with the ball and he was gone, 99 yards the other way. that opened the floodgates. west virginia set a school and orange bowl record for points, embarrassed clemson 70, yep, 70-33. college hoops. temple beat a top ten tea