The University of West Virginia has never won an NCAA National Championship in football. They have won or co-won 12 conference championships. They won eight in the Southern Conference (1953-1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1967) and 2 in the Big East (1993, 2005). They were also co-champions twice in the Big East (2003, 2004).
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West Virginia University made its only appearance in the national championship game in 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky. It lost the game to California (the University of California-Berkeley)
71-70. Despite losing, it was West Virginia's star player, Jerry West, who was awarded Most Outstanding Player honors.