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Article: SOUTH FLORIDA: 24, WEST VIRGINIA; 19; Vaunted ground game held in check
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- November 26, 2006
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MORGANTOWN - Steve Slaton had been there before. Plenty of times,
in fact.
So when South Florida's defense wrapped him up and made him look
closer to the country's second-worst rusher and not the second-best,
he was only mildly concerned.
"I feel like you can stop me for a while, but I'm going to break
something sooner or later," Slaton said Saturday. "I didn't feel like
they could stop me the whole game."
Guess what? They did. And the Bulls stopped Patrick White, too.
Barely a week after Slaton and White rushed for 435 yards in a win
at Pitt, the two combined for just 60 against South Florida. And as
everyone is painfully aware, as go Slaton and ...