After watching hours upon hours of video tape, sifting through dusty, tattered news clippings and meeting on several different occasions, our esteemed panel of football experts has come up with 32 great moments in West Virginia University history for you to vote on.
Well, perhaps the process wasn’t quite that involved, but, nevertheless, where to start?
Close to the beginning seems like the logical place when coach Clarence “Fats” Spears took 19 football players out to San Diego to play Gonzaga in the 1922 East-West Christmas Classic, later to become known simply as the East-West Bowl.
It was the first-ever bowl appearance for the Mountaineers, a 21-13 victory over a Gonzaga team that actually included the first in a long line of Stocktons - John’s grandfather and David’s great grandfather Houston Stockton - who scored a fourth-quarter touchdown for the Zags.