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1981 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1981
team	West Virginia Mountaineers
sport	football
conference	Independent
CoachRank	18
APRank	17
record	9–3
head_coach	Don Nehlen
hc_year	2nd
off_coach	Gary Tranquill
oc_year	2nd
stadium	Mountaineer Field
champion	Peach Bowl champion
bowl	[Peach Bowl](1981-peach-bowl-december)
bowl_result	W 26–6 vs. [Florida](1981-florida-gators-football-team)

The 1981 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Mountaineers' 89th overall season and they competed as a Division I-A Independent. The team was led by head coach Don Nehlen, in his second year, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with record of 9–3 and defeated Florida in the Peach Bowl.

Schedule

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Roster

References

(September 13, 1981). "Cavs grounded". The Times & World-News.
(September 20, 1981). "Terps struggle again, lose to West Virginia". The Charlotte Observer.
(September 27, 1981). "West Virginia romps 49–3". The Times Recorder.
(October 4, 1981). "West Virginia rolls to 4–0, crushes Boston College". The News and Advance.
(October 4, 1981). "Undefeated West Virginia knocks off Boston College". Tallahassee Democrat.
(October 4, 1981). "West Virginia 38, Boston College 10". St. Petersburg Times.
(October 11, 1981). "Pitt shelves air attack, wins, 17–0". The Miami Herald.
(October 18, 1981). "Virginia Tech gets lesson in Luck, 27–6". The Pittsburgh Press.
(October 25, 1981). "Warner substitute leads Penn State past W. Va.". Sunday News Journal.
(November 1, 1981). "W. Virginia gets by East Carolina, 20–3". The Pittsburgh Press.
(November 8, 1981). "W. Va.'s Luck good; Owls' bad". The Courier-Post.
(November 15, 1981). "West Virginia rips sputtering Scarlet". The Home News.
(November 22, 1981). "Syracuse, 4–6, upsets W. Va., 8–3". The Sunday News.
(January 1, 1982). "West Virginia too much for Florida in Peach". The Atlanta Journal & Constitution.

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