WVU football has put in significant work over the past few months building a roster filled with new faces, with the Mountaineers set to welcome more than 80 newcomers between freshmen and transfers for the second consecutive year.
Fans got a glimpse of the team at the Gold-Blue Spring Festival during the intrasquad scrimmage portion of the festivities, although what you could really tell from the action is limited. But with a highly-touted recruiting class and some big-time portal additions highlighting the offseason, expectations are high among WVU fans.
But for the second time this week, fans are learning those expectations aren't widely shared on a national level.
CBS Sports snubs West Virginia Mountaineers in updated bowl projections
Just a couple days after ESPN ranked the Mountaineers as the next-to-last in the Big 12 in terms of how successful their offseason went. Now, the news gets worse in terms of national expectations, as CBS Sports released their updated bowl game projections for next season, and the Mountaineers are nowhere to be found.
Theree currently set to be 82 bowl spots open next season, which leaves a lot of room to make a game. Basically, you just need a winning record – and each year, it seems that at least one or two teams with losing records make it as well.
If WVU fails to qualify for the postseason next year, it will be the second consecutive season that WVU has missed a bowl game. That would mark the first time West Virginia has missed a bowl game in back-to-back seasons in 34 years, when the Mountaineers missed three straight bowl games from 1990-1992.
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