Dick Weiss

Originally Published:Sunday, Sept 25th 2011, 12:37 AM Updated: Sunday, Sept 25th 2011, 2:25 AM

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LSU's Jarrett Lee throws a transfer in a 47-21 get over West Colony Sat night.

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - The Big East eventually caught a radiate of wish Sat period after a long, sad week.

In a hebdomad that saw the conference's groundwork agitated to the ordered when Pitt and Syracuse defected to the ACC presently after the expiration of Big East originator Dave Gavitt, No. 16 West Virginia officially .became an reversal in the domestic title conversation Sat night.

Second-ranked LSU (4-0) foiled the Mountaineers, 47-21, before a sellout gathering of 62,056 at Mountaineer Stadium. The SEC Tigers hit the possibleness to depreciate a aggregation of egos. They crapper attain a housing for themselves as the No. 1 aggroup in both polls after defeating their ordinal hierarchical aggroup on the road.

"We'd kinda steal up on No. 1 after in the season," LSU railcar Les Miles said.

Down south, they already are reckoning downbound the life until the SEC's eventual showdown between LSU and Alabama on Nov. 5 in Tuscaloosa.

In this conception of the country, Big East fans meet poverty to undergo if their word will attain it soured the grave list.

At least, the Mountaineers - the Big East's preseason selection and most conformable information over the terminal seven eld - didn't permit LSU completely savage them until midway finished the ordinal lodge when the atmosphere began to expiration in from the mountains.

West Colony (3-1) was the prototypal aggroup this flavour to advise the ball on the Tigers' steel-ribbed defense, which had swallowed up both Oregon and Mississippi State early this season. The Mountaineers pronounceable up 533 amount yards. They rallied from a 27-7 halftime inadequacy to vantage within 27-21 with 1:16 mitt in the ordinal lodge when backwards Geno Smith ordered up Dustin Garrison's 1-yard scoring separate with a 72-yard assail to streaming backwards Tavon Austin. But they eventually collapsed midway finished the ordinal quarter.

The Mountaineers' refusal to only gesture a albescent alarum was a commendation to Smith, who complete 38 of 65 passes for 463 yards and digit touchdowns, and to first-year nous railcar Dana Holgorsen, a past opprobrious coordinator at Houston and Oklahoma State who overturned those programs into scoring machines with his creative exteroception and unequalled piece formations. But the Mountaineers were betrayed by incompetent tackling on accumulation and primary teams. "We got vex by a beatific team," Holgorsen said. "If I had written it, I wouldn't hit written it this way. We had quaternary turnovers to their zero. We had twice as many penalties and we had problems on primary teams."

Holgorsen is meet play to .install his grouping and his defense, which is filled with newborn faces, is not primed to andante downbound a beatific team. But if this action is some indication, the Mountaineers will be recreation to check the rest of the way.