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The uniform of the day for the West Virginia University Mountaineers was blue tops and blue pants, blue on blue as it were, which in retrospect is terribly fitting.

Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium was a cold place to be Friday night. But with the turkey and trimmings all long-since consumed - and a representative of the Gator Bowl in the press box - the facility heated up very quickly.

A game of field goals, with two touchdowns in between, put West Virginia over ninth-ranked Pitt for the first time in three seasons.

At the beginning of the season, I never thought I'd be writing the following sentence.

Perhaps the tipoff on all that is Jarrett Brown came on Monday night in the Puskar Center, just four days before he was to take the field for his final home game as a West Virginia Mountaineer.

Two years ago, the Backyard Brawl. Jarrett Brown remembers it well. West Virginia was ranked No.

Injuries have slowed QB Jarrett Brown. MORGANTOWN - Where, oh where has West Virginia's high-powered offense gone? The numbers are fairly well known by now, but for the sake of clarity and as an update, chew on this: In the first five games of the season, the Mountaineers averaged 33.4 points and 449.2 total yards.

Bridgeport hosts George Washington in a state quarterfinal rematch from a year ago.

By now, everyone's hashed out the two bad calls that cost West Virginia a chance to upset a Top five team at its home field and stay in the chase for the Big East Title: a 'The Cincy fumble at the goal line that was reversed and turned into a touchdown.

MORGANTOWN Though a Bowl Championship Series bid and Big East title are out of the question this season for the West Virginia University football team, the players know there is still a reason to bring their "A" game to the field over these last two weeks.

In retrospect, Bill Stewart said Monday that he would likely take the same approach to West Virginia's crucial late-game series against Cincinnati that he took during Friday night's game: Go for the make-or-break touchdown.

Everyone has seen the play a ' and the replay. WVU was up 14-7 on Cincinnati in the second quarter when one fumble turned touchdown changed all the momentum.

With a week off and then facing difficult closing games against Pitt and on the road at Rutgers, West Virginia's football season is far from over.

MORGANTOWN Cincinnati has only committed four turnovers in its nine games this season, all of which were interceptions, and West Virginia defensive back Robert Sands said that total needs to drastically increase if the Mountaineers hope to have any type of success Friday night.

Jeff Mullen was answering questions about his sometimes-struggling offense this week and eventually the topic turned to quarterback Jarrett Brown.

The fifth-ranked Cincinnati Bearcats try move one step closer to repeating as Big East champions, as they host the West Virginia Mountaineers in a key league bout this Friday at Nippert Stadium.

West Virginia University football coach Bill Stewart believes starters Jarrett Brown and Noel Devine will be able to play Friday when the Mountaineers travel to Big East Conference leader and top-5 Cincinnati, but he is preparing his troops as if they won't. "Both should be capable of playing if treatment goes well," Stewart said Sunday.

Looking for a specific disturbing trend involving West Virginia this season? Never mind the 2-minute offense, which often produces, what about the 30-second defense, which rarely does? At least as that pertains to the first half of games.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - </b/ West Virginia hardly looked like a team that was unbeaten and home and in the thick of the Big East race.

There have been more than a few reasons cited for West Virginia's inability to "put it all together" with any consistency in what to date is a 6-2 football season.