2008 Meineke Bowl - Superstar Pat White Leads West Virginia Over North Carolina, 31-30

Senior Pat White, college football's most fecund running play signal caller ever, registered the best passing play twenty-four hours of his 4-year calling Saturday (12-27-08) in leading Occident Old Dominion to a 31-30 triumph over North Carolina in the Meineke Bowl.

While the game itself was close, Pat White Person Person have no equal while running the ball as a signal caller in college football, adding another 55 paces to convey his calling sum to 4,480 paces rushing. Add another 6,049 calling passing play paces and you have got got one of the very best to ever lace up his cleats for a college football game game.

The 6-foot-2, 185-pound senior is one of lone a smattering of participants who have been able to both haste and go through for 3,000+ paces during their college career.

While better known for his running play than passing, White Person set on a show in the Meineke Bowl that implores the inquiry of whether he could play effectively on Sundays in the NFL. He completed 26 of 32 for 332 paces with 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, and engineered a clutch, game-winning Fourth one-fourth scoring thrust with a 20-yard work stoppage to Alric Arnett.

North Carolina had set 8 work force in the box to halt White's feared running play assault, and it worked as they held White Person Person to only 55 paces on the ground. When White Person Person was forced to travel airborne, he delivered the best passing play game of his college career.

White was selected as the most valuable player because Occident Old Dominion won the game. Had the North Carolina Pitch Heels won, the most valuable player would likely have got been junior broad receiving system Hakeem Nicks, who had 8 responses for 217 paces and 3 touchdowns, setting school records for all 3 classes in the process.

Tar Heel signal caller T. J. Yates had a nice adequate game, completing 15 of 25 for 211 paces and 1 TD, but managed to acquire intercepted with less than 2 proceedings to play, ending any North Carolina trusts of winning the game.

Tar Heel manager Butch Davys dearly wanted a Meineke Bowl triumph to crest his turnaround time season that proverb North Carolina travel from a 4-8 record last twelvemonth to an 8-4 record this year. North Carolina finished the twelvemonth at 8-5. The win left Occident Old Dominion at 9-4 for the season.

The Mountaineers' win was ace sweet for manager Bill Stewart. When Occident Virginia's ace successful manager Rich Rodriguez defected to Michigan, Jimmy Stewart was left to fill up his shoes. Occident Old Dominion could have got done a batch worse than 9-4 on the year. Jimmy Stewart should acquire some props for his effort.

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