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Article: WVU has chance to win 4th straight at Carrier Dome

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October 10, 2009
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West Virginia plays for the 15th time in the Carrier Dome today. It can be a really different experience, and when Syracuse had a really good program, it provided one of the countrys best home- field advantages. Although the dome can be a house of horrors because of a tight, narrow sideline space with a looming and loud crowd, the potential for heat, and the flat playing surface (when throwing quarterbacks are accustomed to a crowned field), the Mountaineers havent been bad in the Boeheim Bubble. OK, WVU is only 6-8 all-time at Carrier, but it also has two of the best road performances in the buildings 30-season history (it opened in 1980). In 1993, the first time the teams played for the ...

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