I'm pulling for them too... but I don't consider them our rivals. They weren't rivals on my watch and I refuse to dignify them with the title of rival.

I hope Marshall wins, it will help our national ranking when we beat them to go to 4-0.

Marshall choked. Not a complete choke job (WVU did go 90+ yards for the last score), but you see this countless times -- defenses laying down whenever there is a 4th quarter lead.

And yes, Marshall is NOT OUr rivals. Never has been, never will be. Wonder where those geniuses are now that thought up of that river bell - I though that got washed ashore somewhere in the Hocking near Coolville. Maybe Sonny Randle tripped over it while fishing for catfish to feed to his dog.

Wow... 

Edited: Too negative, was I today... College sports is funny that way... 

I feel bad for the kicker, Tyler Warner.  He is a really good kid from Parkersburg and that kick was really close.  Tough way to lose the game even if it should have never gotten to OT.  Another lesson in not having the killer instinct.  The fumble late in the 4th was the real downfall of the game for Marshall.

Generally, it's a friendly rivalry, I think, mostly due to proximity. Both fan bases like being able to easily go on the road, have a few beers before and after the game with opposing fans, and generally talking college football.

Personally, it's a function of growing up in the Huntington media market, where 80% of college sports coverage might as well be Jan Brady with a speech disorder, screaming, "MARSHALL MARSHALL MARSHALL!!!!!", with the remainder split 15% WVU, 4% osu, and 1% a random assortment of college teams, including D-2 teams, and rarely OHIO, even though it's in the media market as well.

I'm now dead certain that we should never use puke-brown on an alternate third jersey, becuase it really didn't work when Marshall used it all over themselves.

Growing up across the river from Marshall and having to hear nothing but Marshall when I go back there, I'm happy to see them lose.  I suppose that they ar erecruiting a lot of the same local guys that we are although they are going national (the south) w/Holliday -look at all their Florida recruits this year. As far as a rivally, it,s true that proximity is the main thing going.  Back in my day, we usually thrashed Marshall pretty good.  They have developed the type of following that I wished we had (due mostly due to their coming back from the depths of despair tthat they were in during the 70's to becoming annual winners until recently).   Their fan base is mostly local, ours is more scattered as far as I can tell.  Ther are in a much bigger metro area to draw from-that helps.

I don't get it and I'll think what I think, Thank you.

I'm going off on a tangent here, but it's somewhat related to last night's game. I'm sitting at a high school football game and checking my phone many times to find this score, wondering why in an area as football-crazy as West Virginia they chose a Friday night to play. (That's rhetorical...I know why they chose Friday night...ESPN...but screw THOSE guys).

And that goes for any teams located in high school football-rich areas. If you're the Rutgers or the UConns of the college football world, knock yourself out and play on Friday night. I understand schools that are in metro areas with few social ties to high school football, but Ohio and West Virginia are largely identified culturally by their high school football.

Playing on a Friday night just feels wrong to me.The one regrettable thing about that Ohio win over Pitt is that it came on a Friday night, so half the state of Ohio didn't watch it. It was a seminal moment in the program's history, and most people were driving home from their hometown's football game. As they should.

So to summarize: Brian had to work and didn't get to watch the game last night, so he's pissy about it and made a broader statement about Friday games based on that pissiness. That's the end of my  rant.

It's an argument for another time, but I believe there are many conditions unique to Ohio's program that precluded it from ever doing what those other  power programs did over the last 40 years.

This is good; everyone's game ready hostile today--rip FATMAN!


How come no one's mentioning one of the prime features of a game at stupd cow:  You get to have your car keyed but people of questionable lineage.  Some of them even have ties to the human race.