West Virginia’s win over Pitt was by far the biggest win of the young season, and probably won’t be topped the rest of this year, or for the next five years until the Backyard Brawl renews in 2029.

Rich Rodriguez had a lot of family in town and some of his friends from Arizona, when he was the head coach there from 2012-17, and after the win, he smoked cigars with them until midnight.

“We all realized, ‘We’re hungry,” Rodriguez said he told Pat McAfee on ESPN. “We haven’t ate since 8 a.m.”

The only thing that was open at that time was the Applebee’s in Morgantown.

“Thankfully, the chef was still there,” Rodriguez said. “We kind of barged in there. Ate some Applebees at 12 o’clock and had a grand time.”

Fans were celebrating by drinking, some were still in the tailgate lot a couple hou

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