MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 Tye Edwards rushed for three touchdowns, including a 1-yarder in overtime to lift West Virginia to a 31-24 win over Pittsburgh on Saturday night in the Backyard Brawl.<\/p>\n
Nicco Marchiol, benched for five series in the second half, led West Virginia on a furious comeback. The Mountaineers scored 10 points in the final five minutes of regulation to send it to overtime, then Marchiol led the eight-play scoring drive on the first series of overtime.<\/p>\n
Pitt had the chance after Edwards\u2019 overtime score but went nowhere. Eli Holstein threw incomplete on fourth-and-20 to end the game.<\/p>\n
West Virginia (2-1) bounced back from a pitiful performance on the road a week ago at Ohio. West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez won in his first matchup with Pitt<\/a> since 2007, when the Panthers prevailed 13-9 and denied the Mountaineers a trip to the BCS national championship game.<\/p>\n He has said this game wouldn\u2019t erase any of the angst from that loss. But the result set off a celebration from the sellout crowd.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh (2-1) lost for the fourth straight time in Morgantown.<\/p>\n Holstein brought Pitt back from a 7-3 halftime deficit with a short TD run and a 14-yard scoring toss to Raphael Williams Jr. for a 24-14 lead with 9:23 left in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n Marchiol then returned to the game to lead one drive that resulted in a field goal and, after West Virginia\u2019s defense forced a punt, the Mountaineers got the ball back at their 13 with under 3 minutes left.<\/p>\n Marchiol led the Mountaineers down the field, hitting tight end Grayson Barnes with a 2-yard TD toss to tie the score at 24-24 with 11 seconds left.<\/p>\n Edwards ran 25 times for 141 yards, including other TD runs of 12 and 1 yards. He got the bulk of the carries in place of Jahiem White<\/a>, who was lost for the season a week ago with a knee injury. <\/p>\n Holstein finished 22 of 37 for 303 yards. Pitt leading rusher Desmond Reid had 30 rushing yards in the first 11 minutes of the first quarter but didn\u2019t get a carry the rest of the game.<\/p>\n The takeaway<\/p>\n Pittsburgh: Unlike last year, when Holstein engineered a comeback win for the Panthers over West Virginia<\/a> as a freshman, he couldn’t get it done this time.<\/p>\n West Virginia: Marchiol came up huge after two backup quarterbacks got little done for the Mountaineers. Scotty Fox Jr. threw a pair of interceptions in the third quarter that gave Pitt the ball in West Virginia territory and led to a pair of field goals. Marchiol finished 19 of 25 for 192 yards.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Pittsburgh: Is idle next Saturday and hosts Louisville in their Atlantic Coast Conference opener on Sept. 27.<\/p>\n West Virginia: Plays at Kansas in their Big 12 opener next Saturday night.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 Tye Edwards rushed for three touchdowns, including a 1-yarder in overtime to lift West Virginia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[63173,94960,399,44927,398,396,397,94959,32696,94958,99],"class_list":["post-155061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-desmond-reid","tag-eli-holstein","tag-football","tag-jahiem-white","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-raphael-williams-jr","tag-rich-rodriguez","tag-scotty-fox-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}