West Virginia Buys Out of Game at Florida State

Published: 4th Feb 12 3:29 pm
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West Virginia is already on the hook for millions in Big East exit and legal fees, what’s another few hundred thousand tossed at Florida State?

The Mountaineers informed the Seminoles that they won’t be playing in Talahassee on September 8th, robbing college football of an intriguing top 15 matchup.

Dana Holgorsen’s team pummeled Clemson, the ACC champ, in the Orange Bowl and Geno Smith suiting up against that nasty Florida State defensive line would have made for appointment viewing.

For the Mountaineers, it cuts down on a brutal schedule next fall. For the Seminoles, their BCS title hopes actually increase if the payoff is an undefeated season devoid of a close loss to West Virginia.

As West Virginia continues, unabated, toward membership in the Big 12 next season, one non-conference game had to go.

Their preferred conference plays nine league games while the Big East, the jilted ex-girlfriend here, plays eight.

As CBS Sports notes, it seems likely then that Florida State will replace West Virginia with another Big East team, probably Syracuse or Pitt.

Each squad in that conference loses the Mountaineers from their 2012 schedule and just seven months prior to kickoff, requires another game.

That means quite a few cupcakes being paid ransoms to travel to Big East campuses and collect perhaps $1 million for their leaky secondaries and inaccurate quarterbacks.

College realignment seems to have slowed but the ramifications of breaking contracts and overhauling schedules makes it more likely that we’ll see more teams asking out of games in the near future.

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