page_title: West Virginia Mountaineers football
section_title: Traditions
hierarchical_section_title: West Virginia Mountaineers football / Traditions
caption_attribution_description: Chris Southard, WVU Band Photographer —GNU Free Documentation License written by the Free Software Foundation. This was originally written to license free software documentation. WVU ROX!
context_page_description: The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision of college football. West Virginia plays its home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers compete in the Big 12 Conference.
  With a 752–495–45 record as of the conclusion of the 2018 season, WVU ranks 14th in victories among NCAA FBS programs, and has the most victories among those programs that never claimed nor won a national championship. West Virginia was originally classified as a College Division school in the 1937 season, and joined the University Division, forerunner of Division I, in 1939. It has been a member of Division I FBS since 1978. The Mountaineers have registered 82 winning seasons in their history, including one unbeaten season in 1922 and nine seasons with at least ten wins. The Mountaineers have won or shared a total of 15 conference championships, including eight Southern Conference titles and seven Big East Conference titles.
caption: Formation of the state by the Pride of West Virginia marching band during the 2006 Sugar Bowl.
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