In advance of Friday’s match-up with the West Virginia Mountaineers, we stopped on by SBNation’s resident WVU blog, The Smoking Musket, to learn a little more about our former conference foes. Special thanks to Matt Kirchner for taking the time to answer some questions!
So, before we get started, your game against Marshall was a bigger deal than the average fan would realize. Fill us in on this lesser known “rivalry.”
We’re the two division one universities in a very small state, so there’s a lot that comes with that. In football, the rivalry has never been anything.