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It was November 12, 1994.
Long before his association with West Virginia University or the Odd Stack defense, Tony Gibson was a small college football player, a tougher-than-nails overachiever who battled his way into the lineup at Glenville State College for four straight years.
All told, Gibson played in 44 games at GSC. In 43 of those, he was a defensive back.
Not many folks know about the one game he wasn’t.
At 8-1, Glenville was the No. 2 ranked NAIA team in the country, but the Pioneers were nevertheless “playing up” -- taking a 10-hour bus trip into the coastal pines of the Deep South to tangle with one of the most menacing teams that the NCAA Division 1-AA of yesteryear had to offer - a program that had won, at that point, four national championships in nine seasons and owned a 71-7 record at home in its new facility.