CHARLOTTE, N.C. — No. 17 West Virginia and Tennessee are battling for the Belk Kickoff championship, which may mean store credits for apparel and bedding, or perhaps just the awesomeness of being 1-0.
I’ll be here with drive-by-drive updates for the first-ever meeting between these Appalachian neighbors:
Pregame notes
— It’s 91 degrees as we near kickoff. Humidity is only 15 percent, but there’ll be cramping. There’s always cramping.
— The Mountaineers are trying to break a three-game losing streak, and what’s worse … they haven’t led in any of those losses.