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The 2002 West Virginia Mountaineers football team completed the regular season with a 9–4 record and traveled to the Continental Tire Bowl where they lost to the Virginia Cavaliers 48–22. They finished with a ranking of 25/20.WVU’s 9–4 record marked the biggest one-season turnaround in Big East Conference history after posting a 3–8 record the previous season.