Welcome to day 18 of our countdown to the 2015 college football kickoff, and a record that is more dubious than most, that no team will want to eclipse in 2015.
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Most of the records and players that we’ve featured in our countdown to kickoff have been great ones. The best players, the most yards, the biggest stories. But lets face it, not all records are good ones, and there’s a record that ties into the number 18 that’s one to which no quarterback wants his name tied.
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Most of us track consecutive passes without an incompletion, or without an interception, or even without a touchdown pass.
How about consecutive passes without…a completion?
It’s record that has stood since October 18, 1946, and it belongs to West Virginia quarterback Pete Zinaich, who tossed the ball 18 times against Temple before finally logging a completion in the Mountaineers 6-0 loss.
The Mountaineers finished the 1946 season with a 5-5 mark, and their 12 point per game average was good for 90th in the nation in total offense out of 120 teams. This definitely was not the Rich Rodriguez West Virginia offensive machine.
But records are records, and the Mountaineers are probably hoping that someone (preferably in the Big 12) breaks this one so as to erase their name from the record books in at least one category.
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