Watch what happens when sports commentator picks Clemson to destroy West Virginia

[@eerslink5498]

A college buddy of mine said that he saw Herby at an airport a couple weeks after the Orange Bowl, said he couldn't resist saying "Hey, Herby, great job on that Orange Bowl prediction!" Said that Kirk just laughed and said "Hey, if you're going to be wrong, be REALLY wrong."

[@ezxdray-jq3mh]

Lol😂

[@yardsale781]

At least he owed it

[@eerslink5498]

@@yardsale781 absolutely. I actually really like Herbie. Met him a couple times in Morgantown back in the RR days. He's a good enough fella. Always polite and engaging.

[@johnnyjarrett8166]

​@@eerslink5498he cried in front of the world on national television because of his "white guilt"....he's A HUMAN SCUMBAG

[@redfordreddington8834]

​@@johnnyjarrett8166get some help

[@wesfields9322]

Stedman bailey and tavon austin goes down in history as top 10 wr duos of all time ncaa. Absolute deadly duo

[@jamondwilliams9076]

Absolutely filthy, I know it’s far fetched but I always imagined them playing with pat white, steve slaton, and noel devine too. Team would legit score 70 a game.

[@wesfields9322]

@@jamondwilliams9076 I literally just thought about that the other day too 😆 That would have been OP with pat white at Qb

[@AngusBeef0]

@@wesfields9322 idk Geno and Bailey played high school ball together. very in tuned with each other. Austin a freak who wouldve made any team better

[@mocarpenter8836]

Agree 💯% Change My Mind !!

[@mikeboyd3225]

Herby has a history of this . In the 2007 national championship game between the Florida Gators and Ohio State he made the statement that Florida shouldn’t even be in the game and that Ohio was going to put up 300 yards passing on Florida. Florida beat Ohio 41 to 14 for the national title and Ohio only put up about 80 yards passing. Did my heart some good.

[@BearcatJamboree]

My ex-girlfriend got super pissed at me because she was from Ohio, and I laughed hysterically when I watched the game.

[@brianm6117]

Well Herbie is a OSU homer, so he ALWAYS picks OSU.

[@Iron-sy4yp]

It’s Ohio State Ohio University is a completely different school

[@apoocumber4164]

Yall forget the best player in the country decided to gain like 20lbs of fat for that game

[@joshmoats7981]

Actually that year almost EVERY analyst thought Florida shouldn't have been in the game.....wasnt just Herbie. If I remember right all of the analysts predicted OSU to win by 13+.

[@biggiestretch]

Grateful as hell I got to witness that Mountaineer team and “The South Beach Smackdown” live.

[@CroMagJohnson]

when i was in college (2000 - 2004), my roommate and i used to bet on some games with a bookie on campus. one of our criteria was: "what did herbstreit pick? let's do the opposite." we did pretty well.

[@ianzang2178]

Back when West Virginia was one of the most fun teams to watch

[@MBheli621]

😂 not too interesting now….If only we could get someone with 1/2 the talent of Tavon the games may be a little interesting.

[@troylee4196]

Back when the media ruined the existence of the Big East

[@jimmywhitlow2012]

​@@MBheli621we have a lot of great young talent. Hopefully the mature quickly. They are capable of doing great things the next few seasons.

[@inny74]

Then the Big XII happened. 😐

[@georgefrawley890]

I remember this game and always loved it then and still love it whenever blurt herbspit eats crow.

[@bjgolden304]

I think that's the worst beating Dabbo has had at Clemson other than the title game against LSU. Awesome to see Geno getting a chance again. I think he will make the best of it this year. I love when the whole country is wrong by picking against us.

[@editnosmirc4489]

The semi final against Bama in 2017 was pretty bad too. Lost to Bama 24-6 with Hurts at QB. If Saban starts Tua it might have been 38 or 45 to 6

[@matthewlear4518]

DUKE!!!

[@buccizero]

While I'm a Ohio State fan, I cannot stand Herbstreit. I'm overjoyed at how wrong WVU made him look.

[@chucklamantia3067]

These Are The So Called EXPERTS

[@keyracing]

That was personal. Every WVU player who heard that had a fire lit under them.

[@tastylicks]

"Clemson hoping for a 3 and out here" LOL

[@CL_Duybah]

Funny thing is .... because of WVU Clemson won 2 Natty's and avg 10 wins a season since. Made defensive changes to Venables and the rest is history. And then afterwards WVU hasn't done a thing

[@ShoelessWorks]

Since this game WVU and clemson have gone in drastically different directions. As a clemson fan, I hated when it happened but now, i can thank WVU for coach Brent Venables and the incredible run we went on 🤝🏻 also, it was a touchdown not a fumble 👌🏼

[@black98rt]

If only they were half that good now.

[@Zim-wc2rs]

Dana couldn’t recruit a quarterback after that display. He benefited from Bill and Rich’s players. Dana left the program in decline and coach Brown has tried to rebuild under terrible circumstances. If Brown had inherited a robust team he probably would be successful but unfortunately he seems he can’t. West Virginia should be a team to be reckoned with and now it’s a doormat!

[@jim33758]

Will Grier and Skyler Howard are all over the record books at WVU buddy

[@zprice2311]

Lol Dana had a 10-3 season with Skylar Howard at QB in 2016, same record as this orange bowl team and it was in the Big 12 a tougher conference than the Big East. Also you must be forgetting about Will Grier who was a stud. People who say Dana left nothing for Brown know nothing about football. Excuses excuses excuses is all I ever hear to defend Brown. He’s just not any good. Dana was finding junior college players and turning them into NFL draft picks. How many players has Brown got to the NFL? I’m hoping Brown can turn things around and have his first really solid season as head coach this year, but we have a very tough schedule. I want Brown to succeed, but it’s year 5, it’s now or never. We’re way past the point where we can blame Brown’s failures on Dana Holgerson, which is ridiculous in the first place.

[@Zim-wc2rs]

@@jim33758 what high school qb did he recruit?

[@nickma71]

Brent Venables wasn't there to decode the offense. Sign stealing is allowed. Scouting in person in advance and recording the sideline is not allowed (Michigan).

[@seang9450]

I forgot how sick that team was.

[@loganmuncy9267]

Kirk heirbstreit ( probably f***** his name up ) almost ALWAYS picks against wvu and they’ve embarrassed him more than once especially the geno smith , tavon Austin , and steadman Bailey era

[@briansimpkins985]

3-0 in bcs games … mountaineer tough

[@tomjones7706]

If Herby gets paid to be wrong, they don’t pay him enough.

[@joshmoats7981]

Look at the Americas Vote though....of those that voted almost 75% predicted Clemson as well and if you factor in those that didn't vote that year it probably would have been closer to 85% for Clemson to win so it wasn't just Herbie. Oh and they all thought Clemson would handily beat WVU. WVU just happened to have their best game that year against Clemson and Clemson their worse. Clemson that year beat #11 Florida State than #11 Virginia Tech the next week, and Virginia Tech again when they were ranked #5 in the ACC Championship West Virginia beat absolutely nobody that year and got blown out by LSU.

[@unscriptedmemories2969]

Those were the days!

[@dclark142002]

Let's not forget that Herbstreit isn't hired for his ability to analyze the game or predict things well...he is hired for his ability to hype and promote the games. Don't take Herbstreit predictions as worth anything...just enjoy his ability to help you enjoy the game. Or, in my case, mute him because he loves Ohio State too much. :) I never understood getting angry at other people's interview takes...

[@KyloCline]

Well, that certainly didn’t age well

[@gregsonger7221]

Shoulda showed the post game helping of crow Herbstreit had to eat.

[@samburke8595]

How do you not go back to the hosts and watch the guy get burned by the other cohosts!!!!!!!!

[@OnceAnEerAlwaysAnEer]

Exactly!

[@Centennialantennavision]

Wvu scored again

[@norrispreston-rakin1504]

and again, and again, and again!!!!!!!!!😀👊💪💪💪💪

[@WKFootballShorts]

geno's throwing motion was so ugly wtf

[@mikehand5881]

Experts???

[@Dotsprodz]

GENO 😤

[@MargaretKegler]

Gonzalez Cynthia Young Michelle Harris Kimberly

[@BartonSebastiane-p8p]

Allen Christopher Hall Jose Williams Jessica

[@joshuamccaulley7040]

Annnnnd WV been nothing since 😂

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

So satisfying to see these yakkers proved wrong. Hah!

[@josephherlihy9149]

I think this was like when Obama clowned Trump at the Correspondents dinner

[@GDoggy-em2xc]

Trump 2024

[@josephherlihy9149]

plz seek help @@GDoggy-em2xc

[@kalebpost20]

Bashing Trump in the comment section of a college football video of a game from over a decade ago just shows you’re obsessed with him. No one’s laughing with you. They’re laughing at you. Move on, and next time, try to think of something clever or insightful to say instead of revealing your minuscule intellect.

[@josephherlihy9149]

@@kalebpost20 I dont think you understand how analogies work; no one was bashing, I was comparing Dabo to trump in that after an embarassment he went on to dominate for like 6 years, but i will try to work on my intellect

[@thomaswendover756]

West Virginia hasn't done anything of importance since this game! Lol!!

[@brettg9481]

lol

[@randallreid424]

I was at that game and being from West Virginia it’s amazing how cocky and arrogant the Clemson fans were and how quiet and dumbfounded they were the entire game and the coolest part was meeting a couple blokes from Australia that were diehard mountaineer fans hell they even had tattoos of our mascot and said we’d be surprised how popular our football team was over there very cool and the Aussie guys were amazing cool people

[@bh9891]

Clemson fans are sore losers. I was at the fsu Clemson game at Death Valley jameis freshman year. Besides Auburn fans, they’re cry babies. Lol

[@realstormea9140]

interesting story man mine is polar opposite but i dont feel like texting it since you would probably make up another!

[@randallreid424]

@@realstormea9140 I’d love to hear your story my story isn’t going to change it’s perfect the way it is though I did leave out the very end they had the game day crew set up about 50 feet or so from the stands near one of the end zones my group went down to watch so I joined them and when I got there all the Wv fans were chanting as loudly as they could fuck you Mark May and I couldn’t believe how they can keep that from being heard on live tv

[@timothyleon558]

West Virginia a power house in Australia … 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jimmywhitlow2012]

​@@randallreid424Clemson fans still bitter, I see. 😂😅😂

[@sewing3049]

Man I miss when the Mountaineers were good.

[@trevelian23]

@@theamericanvoicedisregarde5366 "on paper".... look at who our wins were against. We played teams that I never heard of before and won and everyone is excited. I really hope we go all the way, but this "9 win team" was a delusion fueled by playing 5-6 highs school level teams. I am WVU's biggest fan and I can't stand the level that we have fallen nor the compliancy of our fans. It wasn't that long ago we could have (should have) won a title, but it seems like a long forgotten dream at this point.

[@gregsonger7221]

Get ready, those days are back.

[@charcoalcowboy]

That was one of the most insane beatdown a ive ever seen live and it wasn’t a fluke. West Virginia really was that much more talented than Clemson

[@roofcollapse3668]

As a clemson fan I say BS. I remember watching this game. Clemson shot themselves in the foot on repeat. broken tackles and missed offensive opportunies. And that goal line turn over turned WV TD destroyed all hope. Clemson was talented as hell. Just sometimes things go right for one team. WV showed up and showed out.

[@biggiestretch]

@@roofcollapse3668that air raid offense scored +40 and +50 points multiple times throughout that season…dropping 70 wasn’t a fluke, y’all got slapped in the mouth like that because Clemson fans couldn’t help but run off at the mouth while we run up the fucking score. Who was the best player on that Clemson team?!?! Fat boy TE Watkins ?!?! Y’all can keep him lmaooo.

[@roofcollapse3668]

never said dropping 70 was a fluke. What was a fluke is clemson not keeping up. They shot themselves in the foot offensively. Defensively they weren't stopping anything that is exactly why Venables was brought in and championships won soon after. I actually thank West Virginia for this game all the time. slap in the mouth clemson needed to make some moves. @@biggiestretch

[@tutnod2449]

@@roofcollapse3668 Still butthurt?

[@fwilliamcony28]

Dabo apologized to Tigers' fans. He admitted that Clemson underestimated the speed of WVU receivers. Gamecocks' fans celebrated and went crazy after the game. There goes Tavon Austin for another one! Thanks to former Asst Coach Doc Holiday for recruiting key players on that team before he left for the job at Marshall U.

[@brandonjones557]

Two programs moving in different directions. But this game you wouldn't realize it was the loser with the better future.

[@kylesawkon4074]

Nah us wvu fans knew it was over after tavon and geno left, we know when our recruiting is good and when it isn’t

[@bullgravy6906]

Pretty good argument to be made that Venables was why Clemson went the direction they did. With him gone at OU now Clemson looks, well, like this again.

[@gregsonger7221]

The future ain't over. WVU is not going away any time soon.

[@brandonjones557]

@@gregsonger7221 who?

[@kylesawkon4074]

@@gregsonger7221 hopefully we get some talent next year, can’t always be good but it’s nice once in a while

[@Miguel53pt]

I don't usually waste my money on T-shirts. But when I do I buy WV destroyed opponent T-shirts. I remember this game vividly because right after the 3rd quarter all of the "majority" of Clemson "fans" began moving towards the exits, to beat the traffic of course. It was pure, unadulterated destruction and well worth it.

[@OldManLuffy]

This was so satisfying to watch and yet sad tavon didnt turn out how I thought he would in the nfl i thought he would be what cmc is but even more dangerous sadly it never happened. 1 of the best college seasons ive seen from a wr.

[@MBheli621]

Rams ruined him. Just didn’t know what to do with him.

[@HastingsDawson]

My uncle coached and recruited tavon and geno at WVU, those guys were built different

[@allenatkins2263]

They don't call him the best analyst in college football for nothing folks.

[@06nemox]

He isn’t clairvoyant, but he is very good with his predictions

[@johndough4298]

​@@06nemoxanybody but wvu is what he said before they beat tcu 😅

[@davidwilliams4498]

That was great though I'm sure Clemson over that. They won 2 national titles been been in CFP about 7 yrs in a row. Unfortunately WV hasn't been to a major bowl since. Holgerson was a great offense coach though his recruiting wasn't very strong or his defense an he was booed to Houston.

[@ctu5086]

Six. Herb. Better Slow your roll. This isn't ESPN where you can just make up records and rankings. Might as well call it CNN.

[@dylan2860]

That is the worse loss for Clemson in a while... oh wait Duke is calling one sec.. 🤣

[@mocarpenter8836]

I was there!! Also @ the Sugar Bowl against Georgia!! Sadly I missed the Fiesta bowl. But watched it @ Keglers !! Let's Fckn Goooo Mountaineers!!

[@dyelbodybuild5601]

Pat white WVU > Geno smith WVU

[@cdmcintyre1854]

I’m from Southern Ohio and Ohio University, Ohio State, and West Virginia are my 3 favorite college teams, in that order. I also like Marshall from Huntington because my Uncle graduated from Marshall.

[@mightyted]

I mean Kirk wasn’t wrong. He just got the wrong team. 😂😂😂

[@tennishuffmusic9654]

In West Virginia, We The People call that one, a big can of WHOOPASS!!! 😂 Love it, highlights never get old 😂❤.

[@norrispreston-rakin1504]

😀👍💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

[@omar10213245]

God that was such a satisfying night. I still think that had WVU not shit the bed against Pitt in 2007, they'd have gone on to whip LSU's ass in the National Championship game. WVU from 2005-2011 was perhaps the most exciting offensive football in the history of college football.

[@redfordreddington8834]

WVU would have gotten stomped

[@omar10213245]

@@redfordreddington8834 no chance LSU wouldve stopped them from scoring. And LSU's offense wouldnt have been able to keep up. Hell, we saw what WVU ended up doing to Oklahoma in that Fiesta Bowl, and OU wasnt that far off from LSU that season

[@bucknut6631]

I went to that WVU-Pitt game. That sucked but man did they take it out on Oklahoma. Owen Schmitt td. It was awesome.

[@redfordreddington8834]

@@omar10213245 OU has been far off from top SEC teams for awhile

[@XIIICypherIIIX]

WVU would have played Ohio State in the NC game. LSU moved up to #2 when WVU lost to Pitt.

[@robwebster1098]

West Virginia just scored again

[@Dukelevi12]

Crazy game looking back, clemson turned into a perennial defensive powerhouse and dominated the decade

[@redfordreddington8834]

Offensive powerhouse.

[@kylesawkon4074]

Nah not till like 2015, fsu didn’t fall off till after winston left but they dominated half the 2010s decade

[@richardstephens5570]

Alabama dominated the decade, five championships to Clemson's two.

[@jamy8575]

Geno Smith !!!! ProBowl at #32. Went from bottom feeding at vet Min $1M/yearly single year contracts; BAWAMMMBA #3year $75M!

[@fabionpettigrew8249]

As a child, I remember thinking it was crazy seeing a team score 70 but now, after watching this, I realize they could’ve scored more

[@jimlthor]

This WVU team was crazy good and stacked with offensive athletes. I remember the OU game where they put something like 600 yds on us in one of the craziest games Id seen at the time..

[@zactrump9965]

The biggest "F You" game in wv history. Geno showed everyone we were better off without Tahj Boyd

[@xXPremiumBeefXx]

9 times outta 10, clemson wins. It's ok to a have a bad season every now an again. 3 time Champs 2 in last few years and how man back to back to back to back to back acc chips??

[@normansstephen9338]

Taylor Brenda Clark John Garcia Shirley

[@mocarpenter8836]

As per Herby !! Didn't do so well this yr with his bet with Pat !!

[@IONTENNISTHAT]

Clemson does win this game tho dabo rebounds wins by 10 plus

[@bobfox2733]

That buckeye didn’t have a clue what he was talking about.

[@neilbruce123]

Watched this game as boy in Myrtle Beach SC

[@Jaydeekay-f7f]

The problem of course is what each team has done since

[@jgregory2206]

Love Herbie eating crow, he's so biased!

[@closer2theheart684]

Ol Burpstreet was dead wrong on that one. lol

[@jeffalanvasconcellos3039]

Can't predict them right all the time? Right?

[@Iamjustavibe]

This was the game forced Dabo to go get Coach v out of Oklahoma.... and the rest is history 🎉 hmmm I always wonder what happened to WV after that game.... it's kinda like they disappeared

[@rutabagaleroy]

Scoreboard

[@kelefane6233]

Now V is back at Oklahoma. Full circle as they say.

[@eers2you]

Best "stuff it Herbie" ever!

[@norrispreston-rakin1504]

The massacre in Miami!

[@SpectralUmbreon197]

West Virginia put up more points against Clemson in this game than their last 4 bowl appearances combined.

[@vandos11]

Ancient history

[@codywarhawk7099]

I've seen games go pretty badly before. But I've never really seen a bowl game get THIS bad. Oof.

[@heybob680]

Who cares LOL

[@cloakedsquid]

geno was a dawg

[@unclelarry9138]

13-9

[@DCSk8er529]

That was pretty much the best thing that happened to Clemson. To win 2 National Championships after that happened says something.

[@OldManLuffy]

3:39 thats what i remember about #1 just breaking ankles every play

[@yeti4269]

I'll randomly look over at my dad and go "I think WVU just scored another TD on Clemson" whenever football is on

[@bucknut6631]

Did Clemson start winning after they started reading the opposing teams plays? Did that really happen? I heard they staffed like 16 people full time to study opponents play calling and plays.

[@realstormea9140]

dam thats crazy but how many rings from cfp do they have?

[@neilbruce123]

lol

[@Islandpandemonium]

yepper, they all went against Colorado also. Said they "didn't have anybody"...

[@gregorall9779]

Are we sure this wasn't CGI? West Virginia couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag!

[@wiiplayers19]

My only disappointment is that the kicker didn’t intentionally miss the last kick to make that record nice

[@randyware9645]

This was before Dabo was head coach

[@BJtheMountaineerguy]

Nah, Dabo was the head coach at the time

[@jmullis78ify]

West Virginia was crazy back then. Smith, Austin and Slayton were bad dudes. Then add some good receivers and a stingy defense.

[@csgolf24]

Slaton didn’t play with this team. Steve played with Pat White, Darius Reynaud, Owen Schmidt and the squad that beat UGA and Oklahoma in BCS bowls

[@jmullis78ify]

@@csgolf24 yeah you’re right. They were good then too

[@jmullis78ify]

@@csgolf24 I got slaton mixed up with Alston

[@csgolf24]

@@jmullis78ify Yes they were. Those WVU teams from 2005-2012 were very fun to watch. They should’ve had a National Title in 2007

[@jmullis78ify]

@@csgolf24 yeah they should. The Big East was fun to watch

[@mattchildress1460]

As a lifelong Clemson fan this game was hard to watch. But this game helped Clemson make some major changes that helped turn the program in the right direction. I wouldn’t change anything in the seasons after this.

[@buccizero]

If it makes thing ANY better, I'm an Ohio State fan and if you guys didn't drop 31-0 on us there's no way we would be in the position we're in today with Ryan Day. Sometimes we all gotta take that L and grow from it

[@bh9891]

You gotta get the 🦜 out at head coach. Sideline boy was the first step in the right direction

[@ancienttribes5310]

@bh9891 totally incomprehensible comment

[@Black_Caucus]

100%. Knowing what we know now and the fact that this beat down was a catalyst for the next decade of success, I would rather take this loss and the future success that was gained, then to have won this one single game, and been a mediocre team afterwards.

[@isaacclark9825]

I am going to assume that you wrote this before the Duke-Clemson game. It's been a bit since Clemson was that BCS powerhouse.

[@txfreethinker]

Wow... love seeing Clemson get destroyed.

[@benwilson6559]

Dude violated that mascot lmao.

[@dereklucero5785]

Well, that didn’t age well.

[@brokl26]

2012, no longer relevant

[@tkfu9436]

Clemson proclaimed at that goal line run "Its Clemsoning time!" then fumbled and never stopped Clemsoning for the remainder of game..

[@troylee4196]

Back when Clemson would Clemson But now they actually win games ehen it matters

[@dee-taylor]

Hey I remember when non-championship/playoff bowl games sold out and mattered.

[@redfordreddington8834]

They didn't matter

[@heypappy]

rich rod and west virginia needs to come together again...

[@biggiestretch]

This wasn’t his team nor was he coaching at all during this time for WVU

[@bamabreakdown]

Imagine if Clemson doesn't fumble away a TD in the second quarter. They go up 24-21. Different game.

[@iSwearToCrites]

Lol “IMAGAINE”

[@warriormvp]

I thought it was cute when the Mountaineers tried to turn 3d and 10 into 3d and 5 simply by lining up in the wrong spot against Penn State. Also cute was keeping your coaches on the field while the play clock was running, forcing a Penn State time out. Smashing our defenseless punt returner and horse collaring on every tackle was also adorable. Great program.