Mount Fan Blog: If We had a College Football Playoff - Quarterfinal Results

Saturday, January 09, 2010

If We had a College Football Playoff - Quarterfinal Results - Saturday Late Afternoon

TEXAS VS WEST VIRGINIA @ GLENDALE ARIZONA - SITE OF THE FIESTA BOWL

Texas shook off a sluggish first half performance and rallied for a 20-14 win over West Virginia and a spot in the Tournament semifinals. The Longhorns trailed 14-3 at the half but scored twice in the third quarter to seize momentum of the game. Cody Johnson's 34-yard touchdown run gave the Longhorns the lead with 3:47 left in the third quarter. Colt McCoy's touchdown strike to Malcolm Williams on the first drive of the second half got the Longhorns back into the contest. After a scoreless first quarter, the Mountaineers took the lead on Noel Devine's 43-yard touchdown run at the start of the second quarter. Jarrett Brown's five-yard pass to Jock Sanders with 33 seconds left in the first half really started to get the Longhorns faithful concerned. But the 'Horns responded positively after the intermission. Jordan Shipley had 8 catches for 107 yards as McCoy threw for 232 yards in the win. Devine ran for 117 yards for West Virginia.

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The Mount FanBlog is hosted by Ryan Raffensperger, a sports fan of all types and a Mount Basketball fan forever.

Raffensperger has loved the Mount as long as he can remember, which basically means 1981 - and remembers the true #GloryDays of Memorial Gym. He remembers the players from those days to the athletes who play at Knott Arena today. And if it's a #MountMayhem day, it's going to be a good day.

He holds a Syracuse University degree in broadcast journalism. He has broadcast high school, college & minor league levels of all sports in his past and regularly covered high school football for his hometown paper. So the blog does make a little sense.

Raffensperger worked professionally as a CPA for many years, but the chronic inflammatory immune disease Sarcoidosis made it impossible to continue that in a manner he found acceptable. Since then, he has spent more time around the Mount St. Mary's basketball program and values Coach Dan Englestad, his staff, and the players' impact on him. The blog was much more active, but the advent of Twitter (follow @themountfanblog) has made writing a little less important. But he hopes that the balance swings back in favor of more traditional content soon.