Reply #31: My dad and I were trying to decide if that was the single worst day in state history

[theboss]

We came up with a few mining disasters that were worse. And maybe the Kennedy assassination. But that loss was in the top five.

This is what makes West Virginia different. Fans had paid for trips to Phoenix for the national title game before the Pitt game. And being a poor state, this was pretty much everyone's vacation budget for the year.

So, when Pitt won - not only did it mean that WVU was not going to the BCS title game. It meant that there was going to be no vacation that year, because a lot of the tickets and rooms were non-refundable.