Noel Devine News

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.

Playing No. 9 Pittsburgh is going to be a hard enough task. And West Virginia coach Bill Stewart is often fond of saying the team will fire every bullet in its arsenal to get a victory.

Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said Monday the reasons are simple why the Panthers have handled West Virginia the past two seasons.

During his weekly news conference yesterday afternoon, West Virginia coach Bill Stewart shed little light on the status of running back Noel Devine 's injured left ankle.

The speaker, swollen with pride and wrapped tightly in confidence, aimed his message at offensive linemen everywhere.

When searching for an offensive coordinator during the past off-season, Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt looked high and low before finally offering the job to a person whose family is well known in western Pennsylvania football circles.

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.

It is now Week 1 of a two-week long celebration of The Backyard Brawl. Or, as we try to give it some real meaning this year, let us put it this way: Pitt-West Virginia: The Shoe is on the Other Foot The scene is the same, Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, as it was two years ago when the Panthers came to town and pulled the stopper on West ...

Here's what we know about the star players in what figures to be the biggest game of the Big East season at least for West Virginia, unless it wins.

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.

Forget math as you know it. Zero is gigantic. At this time of year in college football, there is no bigger number in the loss column.

Through nine games, Cincinnati hasn't lost a fumble, something no other college football team in an division in the country can say.

MORGANTOWN Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly said he doesn't see much of difference between the running back stylings of the Mountaineers Jock Sanders and Noel Devine, but he said he does notice one difference.

Receiver Mardy Gilyard has nicknames for both of Cincinnati's quarterbacks. Zach Collaros? He's "Joystick," a reference to the way he darts one way and then another.

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.

Backup quarterback Zach Collaros helped set a Cincinnati record for total offense, but he might not get a chance to lead the fifth-ranked Bearcats to the first 10-0 start in school history.

As the injuries continue to mount, not just for West Virginia, but all football teams this time of year, strange things start to surface.

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett Will Noel Devine play against Cincinnati? The answer appears to be a definite maybe.

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.

Jarrett Brown threw a touchdown pass but managed little offense and West Virginia struggled to beat Louisville 17-9 on Saturday.